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)
2. run autoreconf (this went ok, because I had just upgraded my autoconf in order to build darcs)
3. run ./configure
4. oops, I only have happy 1.13, it wants happy 1.15
5. go to the happy download page. what, no Mac OS X binary?
6. grab the happy sources
7. ./configure, make, make install. so far so good
8. ./configure GHC again
9. LOL, I need alex 2.0
10. 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"
11. LOL, *still* no Mac OS X binary.
12. ./configure; make in alex
13. have disgusting IM conversation with friend while waiting
14. 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
    

15. consider a career change
16. rm /usr/local/bin/alex
17. sudo rm /usr/local/bin/alex
18. sudo make me a sandwich
19. sudo make install
20. okay, I have alex. yippee.
21. ./configure in GHC again