Building GHC on Mac OS X 10.2, by Kirsten aged 26 1/52

1. grab the HEAD off darcs, per [Building/GettingTheSources] (no problems here) 1. run autoreconf (this went ok, because I had just upgraded my autoconf in order to build darcs) 1. run ./configure 1. oops, I only have happy 1.13, it wants happy 1.15 1. go to the happy download page. what, no Mac OS X binary? 1. grab the happy sources 1. ./configure, make, make install. so far so good 1. ./configure GHC again 1. LOL, I need alex 2.0 1. why isn't this integrated into the GHC build process? also, googling for just "alex" is un-useful. so is googling for "alex lexer" and "alex lexer haskell" 1. LOL, *still* no Mac OS X binary. 1. ./configure; make in alex 1. have disgusting IM conversation with friend while waiting 1. alex: "you lose at life":

Creating a symbolic link from alex-2.0.1 to alex in /usr/local/bin failed: `/usr/local/bin/alex' already exists
Perhaps remove `/usr/local/bin/alex' manually?
make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 1

1. consider a career change 1. rm /usr/local/bin/alex 1. sudo rm /usr/local/bin/alex 1. sudo make me a sandwich 1. sudo make install 1. okay, I have alex. yippee. 1. ./configure in GHC again