HEADS UP: full rebuild necessary

Edward Z. Yang ezyang at mit.edu
Fri Aug 29 16:23:20 UTC 2014


Yes, this is a bug, it looks like the Windows code bitrotted.
Could you go ahead and fix them (looks straightforward) and post your
patch?

Thanks,
Edward

Excerpts from Páli Gábor János's message of 2014-08-29 17:17:47 +0100:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> 2014-08-29 16:11 GMT+02:00 Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu>:
> > Duncan has landed his changes to remove GHC's dep on Cabal, so you'll
> > need to do a clean and full rebuild once you pull from master.
> 
> Do you know if this is related:
> 
> [..]
> libraries\bin-package-db\GHC\PackageDb.hs:264:11:
> Not in scope: `catchIO'
> Perhaps you meant one of these:
> `catch' (imported from Control.Exception),
> `catches' (imported from Control.Exception)
> libraries\bin-package-db\GHC\PackageDb.hs:269:34:
> Not in scope: `newFile'
> libraries\bin-package-db\GHC\PackageDb.hs:272:20:
> Not in scope: `throwIOIO'
> Perhaps you meant `throwIO' (imported from Control.Exception)
> libraries/bin-package-db/ghc.mk:3: recipe for target
> 'libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/GHC/PackageDb.o' failed
> make[1]: *** [libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/GHC/PackageDb.o] Error 1
> Makefile:71: recipe for target 'all' failed
> 
> For more information, please see my recent build attempt on Windows/x86_64 [1].
> 
> 
> [1] http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/builders/windows-x86_64-head/9/10.html


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