[GHC] #977: Booting from .hc files with GHC 6.6 malfunctions

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#977: Booting from .hc files with GHC 6.6 malfunctions
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    Reporter:  guest         |       Owner:          
        Type:  bug           |      Status:  new     
    Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:          
   Component:  Build System  |     Version:  6.6     
    Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:          
  Difficulty:  Unknown       |    Testcase:          
Architecture:  Multiple      |          Os:  Multiple
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The method of booting from .hc files as documented in chapter 9  of the
 GHC building guid does not work for GHC 6.6.

 After having built GHC 6.6 the process `make hc-file-bundle Project=ghc`
 does not create a tarball, as the rts/AutoApply_thr.hc,
 rts/AutoApply_thr_p.hc, rts/AutoApply_thr_debug.hc and
 rts/AutoApply_debug.hc files cannot be found, nor can libraries/haskell-
 src/Language/Haskell/Parser.hs.

 Modifying hc-files-to-go to not include those files and trying to use
 distrib/hc-build with a sourcetree resulting from unpacking the tarball
 created from the modified hc-files-to-go file over a pristine sourcetree
 does not result in a working
 compile either. The process halts at trying to compile ghc-pkg, as no ghc-
 inplace is built yet, at that point.

 The problem occurs on both Mac OS X (PPC) and Linux (i686).

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/977>
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