Make spins with THREADS>1 on Win 7

[Kyra Alex]

Ah, I've forgotten to mention that the environment variable MSYSTEM must be
set to MINGW before starting the shell as is in mingw_shell.bat:
set MSYSTEM=MINGW.

msys2_shell.bat set it to MSYS thus making it answer "msys".

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ is *much* better than stock msys.
> I've successfully built ghc HEAD quite recently (a month ago or so) using
> it.****
>
> ** **
>
> Interesting! There appears to be about zero documentation, but I unpacked
> the tar ball (which has pre-built binaries), put it in c:/msys32, added
> c:/mys32/bin to my PATH, and tried.****
>
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>
> Starts well, but two problems.****
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> ** **
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> **?         **I get lots of this (non-fatally):****
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.****
>
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:****
>
>      LC_ALL = (unset),****
>
>      LANG = "ENG"****
>
>     are supported and installed on your system.****
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> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").****
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> ** **
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> **?         **But then I get this error which brings things to a halt:****
>
> checking for gfind... no****
>
> checking for find... /usr/bin/find****
>
> checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort****
>
> checking for GHC version date... inferred 7.7.20131001****
>
> checking for ghc... /cygdrive/c/fp/HP-2013.2.0.0/bin/ghc****
>
> checking version of ghc... 7.6.3****
>
> GHC path canonicalised to: /cygdrive/c/fp/HP-2013.2.0.0/bin/ghc****
>
> checking build system type... Invalid configuration `i686-pc-msys': system
> `msys' not recognized****
>
> configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub i686-pc-msys failed****
>
> ** **
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> Does anyone have ideas for fixing this?   Kyra, how did you get past these?
> ****
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>
> Simon****
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>
> *From:* Kyra Alex [mailto:meurglys3 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 01 October 2013 19:05
> *To:* Simon Peyton-Jones
> *Cc:* Edsko de Vries; ghc-devs at haskell.org
> *Subject:* Re: Make spins with THREADS>1 on Win 7****
>
> ** **
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ is *much* better than stock msys.
> I've successfully built ghc HEAD quite recently (a month ago or so) using
> it.****
>
> ** **
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Yes; it appears that in the current MSYS release,  'make -jn' goes into an
> infinite loop. This is very depressing.  I do not know a fix.
>
> If you google around and find a fix, do tell us.  Currently I have to use
> THREADS=1 all the time
>
> Simon****
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Edsko
> | de Vries
> | Sent: 01 October 2013 16:21
> | To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> | Subject: Make spins with THREADS>1 on Win 7
> |
> | Hi all,
> |
> | Trying to get a build going on Win 7. On both the 32-bit and the
> | 64-bit version running 'sh validate' stalls at
> |
> | "inplace/bin/mkdirhier" utils/touchy/dist/build/tmp//.
> |
> | At this point nothing happens, other than that I seem to have 100% CPU
> | usage; 'ps' only shows two make processes, but no further
> | subprocesses. Not sure what's going on here. Running 'sh validate
> | --no-clean' after killing both make processes at this point stalls at
> | the same point; running it with THREADS=1 seems to resolve the issue.
> |
> | Anybody any idea what might be going on?
> |
> | Edsko
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