Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hi Maxime, > > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:58:47AM +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > > To be more precise, I want to know how to create the > > ghc-$version-$arch-boot.tar.bz2 file to redistribute to users so > > that they can build GHC easily, and that on a platform that already > > has a working (but older) GHC installation. > > > > So far, I've been able to find out that I want to use the binary-dist > > make target, and that this requires me to put BIN_DIST=1 in > > mk/build.mk. Other than that, I'm pretty much lost. > > That's basically it. Assuming you're using a released GHC: > > echo "BIN_DIST=1" >> mk/build.mk > ./configure > make > make binary-dist stage=2 > > It doesn't currently work in the HEAD, but I'm working on that.
Thanks Ian! I'm glad to finally know the precise incantations needed to build a GHC binary bundle :-). And while I'm here, thanks to Simon for letting me know my mail wasn't just ignored. I guess it's now time to update the FreeBSD GHC port to 6.6.1! Cheers, Maxime _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users