On 2008 Sep 16, at 11:01, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
reports that Happy is needed.
But earlier, I compiled ghc-6.8.3 with itself,
and it did not required Happy.
Generally, as I recall, I got used to making GHC from source without
installing Happy.
Please, what (and why) has changed about this
The release tarballs come with an already-happy-generated parser; the
darcs version does not (because the parser could change as new
extensions are brought in through the development process, so it makes
more sense to have to generate it with happy every time to get the latest
parser changes.)
Aus
Dear GHC team,
I again have problems with making GHC from source.
Now, this is for making ghc-6.9.20080910-src.tar.bz with ghc-6.8.3.
./configure --prefix=...
reports that Happy is needed.
But earlier, I compiled ghc-6.8.3 with itself,
and it did not required Happy.
Generally, as I rec