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supported method, and you may encounter difficulties. Full
instructions are in .
- Which version of GHC you need will depend on the
- packages you intend to build. GHC itself will normally
- build using one of several older versions of itself - check
- the announcement or release notes for details.
+ GHC can be built using either an earlier released
+ version of GHC (currently 5.04 and later are supported), or
+ bootstrapped using a GHC built from exactly the same
+ sources. Note that this means you cannot in general build
+ GHC using an arbitrary development snapshot, or a build from
+ say last week. It might work, it might not - we don't
+ guarantee anything. To be on the safe side, start your
+ build using the most recently released stable version of
+ GHC.