Compiling GHC with Clang

[Christian Maeder]

Am 02.04.2014 10:21, schrieb Christian Maeder:
> In the sources of ghc-7.8-rc2 I only find the file
>    compiler/parser/Lexer.x.source
>
> How is this one turned into a file Lexer.x?

Just by renaming! It seems Lexer.x was moved to Lexer.x.source in order 
to avoid regeneration of Lexer.hs.

C.

>
> Am 02.04.2014 09:49, schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
>> On 2014-04-02 at 09:35:31 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
>>> I had a similar problem on a Mac (and clang) that I could solve by
>>> updating to the versions of (happy and) alex that you already use. Are
>>> you sure that Lexer.hs was freshly (re-)generated?
>>
>> ...it was freshly generated (by [1] - I forced it to be recreated by
>> removing it), and it has exactly the same content it has when using GCC
>> for building (which succeeds compiling it)
>>
>> Does it make a difference whether 'Alex' was compiled by a
>> Clang-configured GHC in the first place?
>>
>>
>>
>>   [1]: "${HOME}/.cabal/bin/alex"  -g --latin1
>> compiler/parser/Lexer.x -o compiler/stage2/build/Lexer.hs
>>
>>        ...and ${HOME}/.cabal/bin/alex is in fact version 3.1.3
>>
>>
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