<div>Hi buddies. I've been looking for methods to bootstrap GHC 6.10 but with no luck. It seems GHC 5.0 is the last version that provides HC source for bootstrapping. I think, however, bootstrapping GHC above 6.x is still necessary. </div>
<div> First, it will be easier to build GHC on a new platform, eg, OpenSolaris. By now I succeed building GHC 6.10.4 on OpenSolaris(x86), with the help of GHC 6.6 binary package for Solaris x86 by Christian Maeder. But that was a terrible procedure. I have to deal with bins and libs for two versions of GHC.</div>
<div> Second, compiling GHC from strap is the only way to go into OpenSolaris' official package repository, since all packages for OpenSolaris are built by Source Juicer (<a href="http://jucr.opensolaris.org/home/">http://jucr.opensolaris.org/home/</a>) from pure source code, and there can't be any pre-installed GHC on Source Juicer Build Grid.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Wu Shu</div>