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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It’s bizarre that pacman won’t let us downgrade curl!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I don’t know how to do that with pacman, so instead maybe try:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">pacman -S wget<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">wget -qO - <a href="http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz">
http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz</a> | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">wget -qO - <a href="http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz">
http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz</a> | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I tried this. All three commands succeeded, the latter two with no output at all. But once more “./configure” fails with the same message “File not found - *.tar.xz”. It is a bizarre message
isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">A lot of files are there:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">/c/code/HEAD$ ls ghc-tarballs/mingw-w64/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">/c/code/HEAD$ ls ghc-tarballs/mingw-w64/x86_64/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils-2.25.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git-5.0.0.4531.49c7046-1-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-5.2.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs-5.2.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-gmp-6.0.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git-5.0.0.4531.49c7046-1-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-isl-0.14.1-2-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv-1.14-5-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git-5.0.0.4538.78dca70-1-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-mpc-1.0.3-2-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-mpfr-3.1.3.p0-2-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git-5.0.0.4538.78dca70-1-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib-1.2.8-8-any.pkg.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">/c/code/HEAD$ ls ghc-tarballs/perl/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">ghc-perl-1.tar.gz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">All I need is for ‘configure’ to get on and un-tar them! Maybe the problem isn’t with curl at all?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> lonetiger@gmail.com [mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 28 June 2016 23:27<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ghc-devs@haskell.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Msys2 64: progress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Simon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m not sure what’s going on there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I updated my curl to 7.49.1 and I am experiencing the same silent death (--version doesn’t even work for me then which is weird).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In any case, downgrading back to 7.48.0 worked for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I don’t know how to do that with pacman, so instead maybe try:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">pacman -S wget<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">wget -qO - <a href="http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz">
http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz</a> | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">wget -qO - <a href="http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz">
http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz</a> | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If it doesn’t work, to upgrade again to 7.49.1 you can just do pacman -S curl libcurl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tamar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">Simon Peyton Jones</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 28, 2016 21:13<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com">lonetiger@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: Msys2 64: progress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Actually I had the command right; copy/paste somehow removed the underscore.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And curl –version does report <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">curl --version<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">curl 7.49.1 (x86_64-pc-msys)
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so it should not be necessary anyway.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But ./configure still fails with<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">checking for path to top of build tree... C:/code/HEAD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">configure: Checking for Windows toolchain tarballs...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">configure: Extracting Windows toolchain from archives (may take a while)...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">File not found - *.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download x86_64<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">completes after 1 second, with no messages of any kind.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What next?!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> ghc-devs [<a href="mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org">mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com">lonetiger@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 28 June 2016 22:19<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>>; David Macek <<a href="mailto:david.macek.0@gmail.com">david.macek.0@gmail.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:tamar@zhox.com">tamar@zhox.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Msys2 64: progress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Simon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You’re missing an underscore in the command (there’s one between x86 and 64),
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It’s pacman -R <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2frepo.msys2.org%2fmingw%2fx86_64%2fmingw-w64-x86_64-curl-7.43.0-2-any.pkg.tar.xz&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c29ea9918454d48869fcb08d39f917b40%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=1LRbkuT6t%2f%2bEyWa1nfWXuraL5Y%2faGwB9n6b6bRwBb3I%3d">
mingw-w64-x86_64-curl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This is only needed if curl --version reports anything other than x86_64-pc-msys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After that you need to install the normal msys curl with pacman -S curl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You don’t have to run configure everytime to test either, you can just run<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">from the root and it should just download the packages only if everything is setup correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Also don’t forget to do a pacman -Sy to update the repositories. Couldn’t gather from your email if you did this already.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tamar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 28, 2016 21:02<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:david.macek.0@gmail.com">David Macek</a>; <a href="mailto:tamar@zhox.com">
tamar@zhox.com</a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Msys2 64: progress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Friends<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to thank everyone who has responded – very helpful!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to your help I am making progress<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>I re-installed msys64 from scratch, this time following the instructions on the GHC wiki rather than the msys2 page. By doing update-core; then pacman -Su; then pacman -Su again, I got a clean install. Very good!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Getting a shell between each step is tricky.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>The first shell is gotten with mingw64.bat<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>After update-core, that file is gone; you have to use msys2_shell.cmd I think<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>After pacman -Su we get mingw64.exe, which we can use thereafter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>My slow-start problem appears to have gone away. I adopted the fix from
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">you may be hitting a long standing issue some computers have in which the domain controller is being hit for every invocation of commands, causing a slowdown
<a href="https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/138">https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/138</a> , Solution 2 from
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">I am not absolutely certain that was the problem, but things seem ok now. I also excluded c:/msys64 from my antivirus check.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Emacs too is now working normally. Hurrah<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So that’s all good.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now I’m stuck on the windows tarballs download thing. I get<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">configure: Checking for Windows toolchain tarballs...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">configure: Extracting Windows toolchain from archives (may take a while)...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">File not found - *.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tried both the things described on <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows">
the wiki</a>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Pacman -R mingw-w64-x86_64-curl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">error: target not found: mingw-w64-x86_64-curl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the other I did the two mkdir things, and tried ./configure again, but got the same error message as above.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So I’m stuck again, but further forward. Can you advise me?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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