[project @ 2006-01-03 11:01:09 by simonmar]

mention that GNU make 3.80 is required.

diff --git a/ghc/docs/building/building.xml b/ghc/docs/building/building.xml
index 0389a23..6829b1b 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/building/building.xml
+++ b/ghc/docs/building/building.xml
@@ -1239,6 +1239,9 @@ $ cvs checkout nofib/spectral</screen>
          specific to GNU <command>make</command>, so you must have
          this installed in order to build any of the fptools
          suite.</para>
+
+         <para>NB. it has been reported that version 3.79 no longer
+         works to build GHC, and 3.80 is required.</para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>