BUILD-NOTES.txt

ghcup install ghc 9.0.2
ghcup set ghc 9.0.2
cabal install alex-3.4.0.0
cabal install happy-1.20.0
export PATH=~/.cabal/bin:$PATH
git clone https://gitlab.haskell.org/harendra/ghc.git
cd ghc
git checkout ghc-9.2.8-develop
git submodule update --init --recursive
cp mk/build.mk.sample mk/build.mk
# Uncomment "BuildFlavour = quick" line in mk/build.mk
# sudo apt-get install autotools-dev
# sudo apt-get install autoconf
# sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
./boot
./configure
make
./inplace/bin/ghc-stage2
make binary-dist # This will fail if autoreconf version is too recent (Use 2.69)

# For faster incremental builds after changes,
# uncomment "stage = 2" line in mk/build.mk

# Ensure nix-profile is not in PATH to avoid any nix related issues

# Find alex and happy versions required from aclocal.m4
# GHC builds often fail because of incorrect happy versions
# Need to find the correct one if the build fails
A working configure output:

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Configure completed successfully.

   Building GHC version  : 9.2.8.20231129
          Git commit id  : 4999d2a61b35f185c285ca73bf8a767a4f35133f

   Build platform        : x86_64-unknown-linux
   Host platform         : x86_64-unknown-linux
   Target platform       : x86_64-unknown-linux

   Bootstrapping using   : /home/adithya/.ghcup/bin/ghc
      which is version   : 9.0.2
      with threaded RTS? : YES

   Using (for bootstrapping) : gcc
   Using gcc                 : cc
      which is version       :
      linker options         : -fuse-ld=gold
   Building a cross compiler : NO
   Unregisterised            : NO
   TablesNextToCode          : YES
   Build GMP in tree         : NO
   hs-cpp       : cc
   hs-cpp-flags : -E -undef -traditional
   ar           : ar
   ld           : ld.gold
   nm           : nm
   libtool      :
   objdump      : objdump
   ranlib       : ranlib
   otool        :
   install_name_tool :
   windres      :
   dllwrap      :
   genlib       :
   Happy        : /home/adithya/.cabal/bin/happy (1.20.0)
   Alex         : /home/adithya/.cabal/bin/alex (3.4.0.0)
   sphinx-build :
   xelatex      :
   makeinfo     :
   git          : /usr/bin/git

   Using LLVM tools
      clang :
      llc   :
      opt   :

   HsColour was not found; documentation will not contain source links

   Tools to build Sphinx HTML documentation available: NO
   Tools to build Sphinx PDF documentation available: NO
   Tools to build Sphinx INFO documentation available: NO
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