From: Simon Marlow Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:35:54 +0000 (+0000) Subject: notes about which versions of GHC can be used to bootstrap X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6613a3a88b21cabc54e681d219b2826ce98e003 notes about which versions of GHC can be used to bootstrap --- diff --git a/docs/building/building.xml b/docs/building/building.xml index 04cf05e..054b9e8 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.