need some help please -- having build issues with ghc 6.6.1

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 23:12 -0600, Toufique, Imam wrote:
> Hi, 
>  
> Pardon me if I have sent this e-mail to an incorrect listing:
>  
> I am very new to building ghc. My platform is "i686-pc-linux-gnu", my
> system is suse linux enterprise server 9 32-bit, and my system does
> not have ghc preinstalled. that's why I thought that I have to
> port/build ghc for my platform as an unregistered build.

Hi Imam,

I suggest you start with a binary build of ghc.

You can get the binary for 6.6.1 here:
http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_661.html#x86linux

Or get the latest version:
http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html#x86linux

If you really want to, you can then rebuild from source.

Doing an unregisterised "HC" build is a lot of work and for your
platform it's quite unnecessary.

Duncan