<p dir="ltr">Hi Josh, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes you are hitting a bug in configure that was exposed due to changes in msys. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Cherry-pick this commit to your branch <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12487">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12487</a> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tamar </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 12:24 Josh Berman <<a href="mailto:berman.josh@gmail.com">berman.josh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I was able to build the "master" branch of ghc 8.0.1 using the instructions found here:<br><a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows" target="_blank">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>When I switched to the "ghc-8.0" branch, though, I get the following error:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">configure: error:<br>You've selected:<br>  BUILD:  x86_64-w64-mingw32   (the architecture we're building on)<br>  HOST:   x86_64-unknown-mingw32    (the architecture the compiler we're building will execute on)<br>  TARGET: x86_64-unknown-mingw32  (the architecture the compiler we're building will produce code for)<br>BUILD must equal HOST; that is, we do not support building GHC itself<br>with a cross-compiler.  To cross-compile GHC itself, set TARGET: stage<br>1 will be a cross-compiler, and stage 2 will be the cross-compiled<br>GHC.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyone know off the top of their heads what the issue is?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>- Josh Berman </div></div>
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