Building HP 2014.2.0.0 without a bindist?

[Mark Lentczner]

Here's my NOTES for building the GHC bindist for Mac, in preparation for
using it to then build the platform:

Notes on build GHC
------------------

[] Need autoconf and automake installed
    get from http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/autoconf/
    get from http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/automake/
    needn't be latest, really
    untar, configure, make, make install (should put in /usr/local)
        - first autoconf, then automake


[] Need lastest tools
    cabal update
    cabal install happy
    cabal install alex
    cabal install HsColour

    make sure all on your PATH


[] Need DocBook XML DTD & XSL
    download http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbook-xml-4.5.zip
    download http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip
    download docbook xsl package (don't run the included install script!)
    put both in /usr/local/share/xml/
    edit the catalog file for the dtd to have xml:base:
        <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"
prefer="public"
            xml:base="file:///usr/local/share/xml/docbook-xml-4.5/">

    set up /etc/xml/catalog file to be using some mangled magic of
xmlcatalog to:
        <?xml version="1.0"?>
        <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML
Catalog V1.0//EN" "
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
        <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
          <nextCatalog
catalog="file:///usr/local/share/xml/docbook-xml-4.2/catalog.xml"/>
          <nextCatalog
catalog="file:///usr/local/share/xml/docbook-xml-4.5/catalog.xml"/>
          <nextCatalog
catalog="file:///usr/local/share/xml/docbook-xsl-1.78.1/catalog.xml"/>
        </catalog>

​[] From a GHC src tar ball:
    export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
    ./configure 2>&1 | tee ../conf.log
    vi mk/build.mk
    time make -j4 2>&1 | tee  ../make.log
    time make binary-dist 2>&1 | tee  ../bd.log

[] in the vi step above, edit mk/build.mk to:

    V=1
    HADDOCK_DOCS=YES
    LATEX_DOCS=NO
    HSCOLOUR_SRCS=YES
    BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML=YES
    BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF=NO
    BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS=NO
    BeConservative=YES
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