[cvs-nhc98] Building source distributions

[Malcolm Wallace]

Sven Panne <sven.panne at aedion.de> wrote:

> I'm having trouble building source distributions:
> ... the "srcDist" target ... seems to depend on "basic", but
> this is not recorded in the  Makefile.

Yeah.  The srcDist target was never really intended to be stand-alone.
It does require that the build tree should already contain a
built-and-working compiler/hmake/cpphs in order to be able to create the
bootstrapping .hc files.  (And yes, it would probably be a good idea to
record this explicitly in the Makefile.)

> /home/panne/nhc98/script/hmake -hc=/home/panne/nhc98/script/nhc98
>     -I../hmake -C  HInteractive.hs
>     /home/panne/nhc98/script/nhc98   -C  -I../hmake  -package base
>     -package  readline -DUSE_READLINE=1 -lreadline -c -cpp  -o LexModule.hc
> LexModule.hs Warning: -package readline interfaces not found.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is srcDist currently simply broken?

This part is broken at the moment, yes.  If you built hmake/interpreter
with ghc originally, then srcDist attempts to create bootstrapping .hc
files using the ghc-based configuration (in particular, for readline),
even though nhc98 does not know about the readline package.  One
solution would be to build readline with nhc98.  Another might be to
disable using/building the bootstrapping .hc files for src/interpreter.

Regards,
    Malcolm