Wired-in packages not found

[Ken Bateman]

I am not the most experienced ghc developer, but I ran "configure
--prefix=$HOME/ghcinst", then eventually I ran "make" and "make install",
and put $HOME/ghcinst/bin on my PATH.

Hope this helps

-Ken

-Ken


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>wrote:

> 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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