<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Hi,<div><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Hugo Pacheco wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">>From the ghc-6.8.2 sources then, I'm just afraid of possible errors, and I don't have any previous ghc installed.<br><br>Do the sources permit bootstrapping? From what I know...<br><i>The source distribution needs an installed GHC (version 6.0 at least). If your platform isn't currently supported with a binary distribution, then you'll need to consult the section on <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting">Porting GHC</a> in the Building Guide.</i><br><br>I'm afraid of the same error as macports 6.6.1:<br><br>configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.<br><br></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>The macports 6.8.2 should be ready soon for Tiger (PPC and Intel) and Leopard (Intel only).</div><div>I have had successful builds on these platforms and the Portfile is updated. However,</div><div>the 6.8 branch seems to have introduced a bug in file locking (#1992 in the trac) that</div><div>causes the build to fail once out of every four or five times. This is not acceptable for</div><div>a production release, so this has to be tracked down before GHC from macports is</div><div>updated.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sorry for the delay,</div><div>Greg</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>