GHC iOS make binary-dist

Luke Iannini lukexipd at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 04:59:32 UTC 2014


OK, I've made a bit of progress here.

Again, I have very little understanding of the binary-dist system so I hope
this isn't nonsense.

The utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal and
utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd
executables have .a extensions, which is a bug, but more importantly are
built for arm and thus can't be used.

lukexi at thopminkingscape:~/Code/ghc (ghc-7.8 *=)$ file
utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal.a
utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal.a: Mach-O executable arm

lukexi at thopminkingscape:~/Code/ghc (ghc-7.8 *=)$ file
utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd.a
utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd.a: Mach-O executable arm

So I tried switching them to the inplace/bin/ghc-cabal and
utils/ghc-pwd/dist-boot/ghc-pwd copies, respectively, with this patch:
http://lpaste.net/99485

This let me build the .tar.gz without errors, and ./configure it fine, but
make install fails here now.
"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" register libraries/ghc-prim dist-install
"/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129/bin/ghc"
"/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129/bin/ghc-pkg"
"/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129" '' '/usr/local'
'/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129'
'/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO
ghc-cabal: Bad interface file: dist-install/build/GHC/CString.hi
magic number mismatch: old/corrupt interface file? (wanted 33214052, got
129742)

http://lpaste.net/99486

(looks like a missing dash in the CrossCompilePrefix as well but that's a
minor issue)

Does this offer any clues?

Cheers
Luke


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm all set to release binaries for GHC iOS (arm and i386 simulator), but
> didn't realize the "make binary-dist" machinery is broken for
> cross-compilers.
>
> I'm starting work on it but will be fumbling in the dark a bit so if
> anyone has any knowledge or link or ideas on where to look, I'd love to
> hear them!
>
> Here's the output of "make binary-dist" on a tree after a successful
> "make" for arm-apple-darwin10 (which will "make install" perfectly).
> http://lpaste.net/99475
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
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