Unreliability of the build system
Geoffrey Mainland
mainland at apeiron.net
Thu May 16 11:02:01 CEST 2013
I use separate build dirs because I synchronize my tree across multiple
machines. It also makes it easy to blow away the build.
Jan, you clearly have some stale build artifacts. Don't mix in-tree and
out-of-tree builds. If you want to use out-of-tree builds, you can
eliminate leftover build artifacts from your source tree using 'git
ls-files -o' (you'll have to execute this in libraries/*, etc. also to
make sure you've got everything). Unfortunately make maintainer-clean
doesn't quite get everything.
Geoff
On 05/15/2013 08:25 PM, David Terei wrote:
> I no longer use a separate build dir (i.e., lndir). I switched away
> from it as it wasn't buying me anything and I would run into issues
> that only seemed to manifest with symlinks. Otherwise I've not
> experienced the issues you mention. I'd point out though that GHC's
> 'no validate failures' is very frequently violated which did confuse
> me a lot when getting started.
>
> On 15 May 2013 05:10, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl> wrote:
>
> > This has never happened to me. I can't even guess why it might
happen to
> > you.
> Looking through the validation log I see that tests fail with
this error message:
>
> Actual stderr output differs from expected:
> --- /dev/null 2013-05-14 15:38:10.771000000 +0200
> +++ ../../libraries/base/tests/IO/T3307.run.stderr 2013-05-15
09:21:45.695049002 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +WARNING: cache is out of date:
/dane/uczelnia/projekty/ghc-validate/bindisttest/install
> dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20130514/package.conf.d/package.cache
> + use 'ghc-pkg recache' to fix.
> *** unexpected failure for T3307(normal)
>
> Any ideas why this happens?
>
> Janek
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