--- /dev/null
+$NetBSD$
+
+We want bootstrapping bindists to be as small as possible, and bzip2
+is not enough:
+
+ % du -sh ghc-*.tar*
+ 291M ghc-7.6.2-boot-powerpc-apple-darwin.tar
+ 60M ghc-7.6.2-boot-powerpc-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
+ 32M ghc-7.6.2-boot-powerpc-apple-darwin.tar.xz
+
+
+--- ghc.mk.orig 2013-02-14 02:24:35.000000000 +0000
++++ ghc.mk
+@@ -1009,7 +1009,8 @@ unix-binary-dist-prep:
+ $(call removeFiles,$(BIN_DIST_PREP_TAR))
+ # h means "follow symlinks", e.g. if aclocal.m4 is a symlink to a source
+ # tree then we want to include the real file, not a symlink to it
+- cd bindistprep && "$(TAR_CMD)" hcf - -T ../$(BIN_DIST_LIST) | bzip2 -c > ../$(BIN_DIST_PREP_TAR_BZ2)
++ "$(MKDIRHIER)" compiler/stage2/doc # Workaround needed when building no docs.
++ cd bindistprep && "$(TAR_CMD)" hcf ../$(BIN_DIST_PREP_TAR) -T ../$(BIN_DIST_LIST)
+
+ windows-binary-dist-prep:
+ $(call removeTrees,bindistprep/)