[nightly] 28-Sep-2004 build of STABLE on Darwin 7.5.0 powerpc(Stealth.local)

[Sean Seefried]

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> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~sseefried/files/ghc-nightly/logs/STABLE- 
> cmis
>> **** Build finished successfully at Tue Sep 28 06:44:33 EST 2004
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> Looks like you have some modifications to the nightly build scripts.   
> Is
> there anything we should merge into the CVS sources?
>

No.  Actually I've written my own versions of the the build
scripts.  You may wonder why I bothered to do this.  The nightly build  
system uses a whole lot of options that correspond directly to  
something you can just write manually into a build.mk, but with  
slightly different names.

Back when I was compiling GHC manually I used to do it by writing two  
things: a custom configure script, which is simply a wrapper around a  
call to configure with whatever flags I wish to pass to it, and a  
build.mk.

I'd then try to build it.  If there were any problems I'd usually just  
twiddle a couple of flags in the custom configure script or build.mk  
and try again. Naturally I didn't have to start from scratch though -  
many of the file had already compiled.

I got annoyed that every time something went wrong when I was using  
'nightly' build scripts I had to twiddle a couple of variables and  
start again. And I was having a lot of trouble getting GHC to build on  
my Mac.

My nightly build system, which I have called buildghc, is a very simple  
set of scripts that take a custom configure and a build.mk, put them in  
the right place, and then orchestrate the build process (much like  
'nightly'). But the thing is I can work out whether the build will work  
first manually and once that works simply copy the custom configure and  
build.mk to the 'site' directory of my buildghc system. And this time  
I'll know it's going to work.

I've tried to make the output look much like that of 'nightly' so as  
not to confuse readers of the cvs-ghc list.

Sean