Building ghc-6.8.3 with ghc-6.2.2 failed on Red Hat 7.3 machine

I'm trying to compile ghc-6.8.3 on an old Red Hat 7.3 system.

Using an older ghc-6.2.2 compiler I configure:

> ./configure --with-ghc=/opt/ghc/ghc-6.2.2/bin/ghc --prefix=/opt/ghc/ghc-6.8.3
...

I make:

> make
...
/opt/ghc/ghc-6.2.2/bin/ghc -H16m -O  -istage1/utils  -istage1/basicTypes  -istage1/types  -istage1/hsSyn  -istage1/prelude  -istage1/rename  -istage1/typecheck  -istage1/deSugar  -istage1/coreSyn  -istage1/vectorise  -istage1/specialise  -istage1/simplCore  -istage1/stranal  -istage1/stgSyn  -istage1/simplStg  -istage1/codeGen  -istage1/main  -istage1/profiling  -istage1/parser  -istage1/cprAnalysis  -istage1/ndpFlatten  -istage1/iface  -istage1/cmm  -istage1/nativeGen -Wall -fno-warn-name-shadowing -Istage1 -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -Iparser -package unix -recomp -Rghc-timing  -H16M '-#include "cutils.h"' -DUSING_COMPAT -i../compat -package unix    -c typecheck/TcBinds.lhs -o stage1/typecheck/TcBinds.o  -ohi stage1/typecheck/TcBinds.hi

typecheck/TcBinds.lhs:523:
    Couldn't match
	`BoxyType -> TcM a' against `TcM (HsWrapper, MatchGroup TcId)'
	Expected type: BoxyType -> TcM a
	Inferred type: TcM (HsWrapper, MatchGroup TcId)
    Probable cause: `tcMatchesFun' is applied to too many arguments in the call
	(tcMatchesFun name inf matches)
    In the first argument of `tcInfer', namely
	`(tcMatchesFun name inf matches)'

typecheck/TcBinds.lhs:672:
    Couldn't match `TcM (HsWrapper, MatchGroup TcId)' against `t -> t1'
	Expected type: TcM (HsWrapper, MatchGroup TcId)
	Inferred type: t -> t1
    Probable cause: `tcMatchesFun' is applied to too many arguments in the call
	(tcMatchesFun (idName mono_id) inf matches (idType mono_id))
    In a 'do' expression:
	(co_fn, matches') <- tcMatchesFun (idName mono_id)
					  inf
					  matches
					  (idType mono_id)
<<ghc: 239363224 bytes, 226 GCs, 7917634/20950144 avg/max bytes residency (6 samples), 39M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.48 MUT (1.04 elapsed), 0.34 GC (0.55 elapsed) :ghc>>
make[1]: *** [stage1/typecheck/TcBinds.o] Error 1
make: *** [stage1] Error 1

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.8.3
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
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