<para>Bootstrapping GHC on a system without GHC already
installed is achieved by taking the intermediate C files (known
- as HC files) from a GHC compilation on a supported system to the
- target machine, and compiling them using gcc to get a working
- GHC.</para>
+ as HC files) from another GHC compilation, compiling them using gcc to
+ get a working GHC.</para>
<para><emphasis>NOTE: GHC versions 5.xx were hard to bootstrap
from C. We recommend using GHC 6.0.1 or
later.</emphasis></para>
<para>HC files are platform-dependent, so you have to get a set
- that were generated on similar hardware. There may be some
- supplied on the GHC download page, otherwise you'll have to
- compile some up yourself, or start from
- <emphasis>unregisterised</emphasis> HC files - see <xref
- linkend="unregisterised-porting"/>.</para>
+ that were generated on <emphasis>the same platform</emphasis>. There
+ may be some supplied on the GHC download page, otherwise you'll have to
+ compile some up yourself, or start from
+ <emphasis>unregisterised</emphasis> HC files - see <xref
+ linkend="unregisterised-porting"/>.</para>
<para>The following steps should result in a working GHC build
with full libraries:</para>