Wired-in packages not found

[Maarten Faddegon]

Dear Austin, Richard,

Thank you for your help!

I updated my example and as far as I can see everything is working as 
expected now with the compiler build from the git repository.

Best,

Maarten


On 27/03/14 16:39, Austin Seipp wrote:
> Template Haskell is certainly included in the 7.6.3 source
> distribution - but I'm afraid off hand, I couldn't tell you why it
> doesn't seem to be picked up by your compilation.
>
> FWIW, if you want a change merged upstream, it's encouraged you use
> GHC from git and make the change there (because there have been a lot
> of changes in HEAD since then). If I remember correctly, the Pred
> change in template-haskell didn't even touch the compiler. The changes
> are here:
>
> https://github.com/ghc/packages-template-haskell/commit/9b128b3c0317283edb0759479e2e26d351b86e58
> https://github.com/ghc/packages-template-haskell/commit/a02ef9d827c4473e5e4efc84d7a8a987f51522aa
> https://github.com/ghc/packages-template-haskell/commit/57b662c3efd8579595c8642fce2d4cd60ba4ec0b
>
> If you *really* don't want to update your example, you *might* get
> away with reverting these commits in the template-haskell repository
> (located under libraries/template-haskell after using ./sync-all), and
> then build. But it's probably better if you can adapt your example to
> match HEAD, if possible.
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Maarten Faddegon
> <ghc-dev at maartenfaddegon.nl> wrote:
>> Dear Richard,
>>
>> I tried rebuilding a fresh source distribution which has the same problem. I
>> simply don't think template-haskell is included in the source distribution.
>>
>> I also tried building ghc from the git repository. This time I had (a little
>> bit) more success: ghc builds and has template-haskell wired-in. However, as
>> I feared, some development in template-haskell's git repository is going on
>> that is not compatible with the example I try to compile (ClassP is
>> depricated).
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>>
>> On 27/03/14 12:04, Richard Eisenberg 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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