[commit: ghc] master: By default, use the dynamic way for programs in the GHC tree (b712667)

[Karel Gardas]

Hi Austin,

I see I've completely forgotten to mention that this is on ARM/Linux 
builder machine so I'm completely out of control of generating build.mk 
in this case.

Thanks,
Karel

On 03/18/13 11:07 PM, Austin Seipp wrote:
> I ran into this earlier today. It's because your build.mk
> <http://build.mk> is now out of date; just blow it away and copy the
> build.mk.sample file over again and set your BuildFlavour.
>
> However, the stage2 build will later fail because it doesn't think that
> LLVM supports -fPIC and -fdynamic on ARM. The patch to fix this is
> simple and it will unblock the build, but we'll need to do some work
> beyond that - the fallout from using the combo dynamic/static way seems
> to have broken some stuff (stage2 no longer builds with LLVM 3.2 for me...)
>
> I will push shortly.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz
> <mailto:karel.gardas at centrum.cz>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello Ian,
>
>     am I right assuming that this patch breaks ARM/Linux compilation
>     which now fails with:
>
>     ===--- building phase 0
>     make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk <http://ghc.mk> phase=0
>     phase_0_builds
>     ghc.mk:133 <http://ghc.mk:133>: *** dyn is not in $(GhcLibWays), but
>     $(DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS) is YES.  Stop.
>     make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>     If so, will you fix this or shall I provide a patch?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Karel
>
>
>     On 03/17/13 01:50 AM, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>
>         Repository : http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.__git/
>         <http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/>
>
>         On branch  : master
>
>         https://github.com/ghc/ghc/__commit/__b7126674a5f4ead9c73a6a2cbe0fbc__85f7d36c12
>         <https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/b7126674a5f4ead9c73a6a2cbe0fbc85f7d36c12>
>
>             ------------------------------__------------------------------__---
>
>
>         commit b7126674a5f4ead9c73a6a2cbe0fbc__85f7d36c12
>         Author: Ian Lynagh<ian at well-typed.com <mailto:ian at well-typed.com>>
>         Date:   Wed Mar 13 21:29:27 2013 +0000
>
>               By default, use the dynamic way for programs in the GHC tree
>
>               In particular, this means that GHCi will use DLLs, rather
>         than loading
>               object files itself.
>
>            compiler/ghc.mk <http://ghc.mk>             | 10 ++++++++++
>            compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs    | 28 +++++++++++-----------------
>            compiler/main/DynFlags.hs   |  2 ++
>            compiler/utils/Util.lhs     |  9 +--------
>         ghc.mk <http://ghc.mk>                      | 12 ++++++------
>            mk/build.mk.sample          |  2 +-
>            mk/config.mk.in <http://config.mk.in>             |  9 ++++++++-
>            mk/validate-settings.mk <http://validate-settings.mk>     |
>           4 ++--
>            rts/Linker.c                | 14 +++++++-------
>            rts/ghc.mk <http://ghc.mk>                  |  4 ++--
>            rules/build-package-data.mk <http://build-package-data.mk> |
>           2 +-
>            rules/build-package-way.mk <http://build-package-way.mk>  |  2 +-
>            rules/build-prog.mk <http://build-prog.mk>         |  4 ++--
>            rules/shell-wrapper.mk <http://shell-wrapper.mk>      |  4 ++--
>            14 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>
>
>         Diff suppressed because of size. To see it, use:
>
>               git show b7126674a5f4ead9c73a6a2cbe0fbc__85f7d36c12
>
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> Austin