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diff --git a/docs/building/building.xml b/docs/building/building.xml
index 04cf05e..5994d2d 100644
--- a/docs/building/building.xml
+++ b/docs/building/building.xml
@@ -165,10 +165,15 @@
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.
@@ -2558,7 +2563,7 @@ $ ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised
-$ cd T/ghc/includes
+$ cd T/includes
$ make
@@ -2593,7 +2598,8 @@ GhcWithInterpreter = NO
GhcStage1HcOpts = -O
GhcStage2HcOpts = -O -fvia-C -keep-hc-files
SRC_HC_OPTS += -H32m
-GhcBootLibs = YES
+GhcBootLibs = YES
+GhcWithSMP = NO
@@ -2620,9 +2626,9 @@ GhcBootLibs = YES
Copy
- T/ghc/includes/ghcautoconf.h, T/ghc/includes/DerivedConstants.h, and T/ghc/includes/GHCConstants.h
+ T/includes/ghcautoconf.h, T/includes/DerivedConstants.h, and T/includes/GHCConstants.h
to
- H/ghc/includes.
+ H/includes.
Note that we are building on the host machine, using the
target machine's configuration files. This
is so that the intermediate C files generated here will
@@ -2632,27 +2638,21 @@ GhcBootLibs = YES
Touch the generated configuration files, just to make
sure they don't get replaced during the build:
-$ cd H/ghc/includes
+$ cd H/includes
$ touch ghcautoconf.h DerivedConstants.h GHCConstants.h mkDerivedConstants.c
$ touch mkDerivedConstantsHdr mkDerivedConstants.o mkGHCConstants mkGHCConstants.o
-
- Note: it has been reported that these files still get
- overwritten during the next stage. We have installed a fix
- for this in GHC 6.4.2, but if you are building a version
- before that you need to watch out for these files getting
- overwritte by the Makefile in
- ghc/includes. If your system supports
- it, you might be able to prevent it by making them
- immutable:
-$ chflags uchg ghc/includes/{ghcautoconf.h,DerivedConstants.h,GHCConstants.h}
Now build the compiler:
-$ cd H/glafp-utils && make boot && make
-$ cd H/ghc && make boot && make
- Don't worry if the build falls over in the RTS, we
- don't need the RTS yet.
+$ cd H/utils/mkdependC && make boot && make
+$ cd H/includes && make boot && make
+$ cd H/compat && make boot && make
+$ cd H/utils && make boot && make
+$ cd H/compiler && make boot && make
+$ cd H/rts && make boot && make
+ Don't worry if the build falls over in the RTS, we
+ don't need the RTS yet.
@@ -2661,7 +2661,7 @@ $ make boot && make
-$ cd H/ghc/compiler
+$ cd H/compiler
$ make boot stage=2 && make stage=2
@@ -2670,7 +2670,7 @@ $ make boot stage=2 && make stage=2
$ make clean
$ rm .depend
$ make boot UseStage1=YES EXTRA_HC_OPTS='-O -fvia-C -keep-hc-files'
-$ cd H/ghc/utils
+$ cd H/utils
$ make clean
$ make -k UseStage1=YES EXTRA_HC_OPTS='-O -fvia-C -keep-hc-files'