Wired-in packages not found

[Richard Eisenberg]

Ah -- I understand better now. I'm afraid I've never worked with the source distribution, so I don't have further advice about that. It seems odd, though, that changing rts code would cause problems with wired-in packages. Have you tried just building without any edits and then putting your edits in?

Richard

On Mar 27, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Maarten Faddegon <ghc-dev at maartenfaddegon.nl> wrote:

> Dear Richard, GHC-devs,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> I am using the 7.6.3 source distribution. According to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/QuickStart "perl boot" is not necessary for source distributions. I did give it a try however (repeating step 3 and 4 afterwards), but it did not solve my problem. There is no sync-all script in the source distribution.
> 
> I went with a source distribution rather than checking out from the git repository because it was recommended on the "Getting the GHC Sources"-page and because I rather make my changes to an otherwise stable tree. Do you think this is a bad idea?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Maarten Faddegon
> 
> On 27/03/14 11:41, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
>> Did you `./sync-all get`? Did you `perl boot`? You may want to check out the "Building GHC" section of https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building to make sure you've followed all the steps.
>> 
>> I hope this helps,
>> Richard
>> 
>> On Mar 27, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Maarten Faddegon <ghc-dev at maartenfaddegon.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear GHC-devs,
>>> 
>>> I want to experiment with the RTS of GHC but the compiler I built has problems finding some wired-in packages. How can I include these?
>>> 
>>> This is what I did:
>>> 
>>> * Download ghc-7.6.3 sources.
>>> * Make some changes in rts/
>>> * ./configure && make
>>> * inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --make my_example.lhs -v
>>> 
>>> And this is the output produced by the last step:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> wired-in package ghc-prim mapped to ghc-prim-0.3.0.0-inplace
>>> wired-in package integer-gmp mapped to integer-gmp-0.5.0.0-inplace
>>> wired-in package base mapped to base-4.6.0.1-inplace
>>> wired-in package rts mapped to builtin_rts
>>> wired-in package template-haskell not found.
>>> wired-in package dph-seq not found.
>>> wired-in package dph-par not found.
>>> ...
>>> my_example.lhs:88:8:
>>>    Could not find module `Language.Haskell.TH'
>>>    Locations searched:
>>>      Language/Haskell/TH.hs
>>>      Language/Haskell/TH.lhs
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Maarten Faddegon
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