ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.1 Release Candidate

[Philip K.F. Hölzenspies]

Dear Ian, all,

I'm getting a build error that I've seen before. I must be overlooking
something. What I do:


lzensp at ewi1043:~/local/src> curl
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.20070912-src.tar.bz2 | tar -xj
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time % Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left Speed
100 6893k  100 6893k    0     0   682k      0  0:00:10  0:00:10 --:--:--  743k
holzensp at ewi1043:~/local/src> cd ghc-6.8.20070912
holzensp at ewi1043:~/local/src/ghc-6.8.20070912> ./boot
Booting .
Booting libraries/base
Booting libraries/directory
/usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
Booting libraries/old-time
Booting libraries/process
Booting libraries/readline
Booting libraries/unix
holzensp at ewi1043:~/local/src/ghc-6.8.20070912> ./configure && make
[...]
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../includes/DerivedConstants.h', needed by `stage1/codeGen/CgProf.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/local/holzensp/src/ghc-6.8.20070912/compiler'
make: *** [stage1] Error 1


Either this is a bugreport or a kind request for advice.

Regards,
Philip