Building head with head

[Edward Z. Yang]

Hello Moritz,

I tried to do this relatively recently and recorded the problems
here:   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9652

I didn't finish diagnosing the further error.

Edward

Excerpts from Moritz Angermann's message of 2014-11-04 10:28:18 -0800:
> Hi,
> 
> today I tried to build head with head on os x.  The result was:
> 
> Linking utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal ...
> "touch" utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal
> "cp" utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal inplace/bin/ghc-cabal
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure libraries/binary dist-boot "" --with-ghc="/usr/local/bin/ghc" --with-ghc-pkg="/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg"  --package-db=/Users/angerman/code/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf --disable-library-for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla --disable-library-profiling --disable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -m64 -fno-stack-protector   " --configure-option=LDFLAGS=" -m64  " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS=" -m64  " --gcc-options=" -m64 -fno-stack-protector     -m64  "   --constraint "binary == 0.7.1.0"   --constraint "Cabal == 1.21.1.0"   --constraint "hpc == 0.6.0.2"   --constraint "bin-package-db == 0.0.0.0"   --constraint "hoopl == 3.10.0.2"   --constraint "transformers == 0.4.1.0"   --constraint "terminfo == 0.4.0.0" --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc" --configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc" --with-ar="/usr/bin/ar" --with-alex="/Users/angerman/.cabal/bin/alex" --with-happy="/Users/angerman/.cabal/bin/happy"
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure utils/hsc2hs dist "" --with-ghc="/usr/local/bin/ghc" --with-ghc-pkg="/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg"  --package-db=/Users/angerman/code/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf --disable-library-for-ghci --disable-library-vanilla --disable-library-profiling --disable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -m64 -fno-stack-protector   " --configure-option=LDFLAGS=" -m64  " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS=" -m64  " --gcc-options=" -m64 -fno-stack-protector     -m64  "   --constraint "binary == 0.7.1.0"   --constraint "Cabal == 1.21.1.0"   --constraint "hpc == 0.6.0.2"   --constraint "bin-package-db == 0.0.0.0"   --constraint "hoopl == 3.10.0.2"   --constraint "transformers == 0.4.1.0"   --constraint "terminfo == 0.4.0.0" --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc" --configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc" --with-ar="/usr/bin/ar" --with-alex="/Users/angerman/.cabal/bin/alex" --with-happy="/Users/angerman/.cabal/bin/happy"
> Configuring hsc2hs-0.67...
> Configuring binary-0.7.1.0...
> ghc-cabal: '/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg' exited with an error:
> ghc-pkg: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases
> (/Users/angerman/code/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf)
> use 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format.
> make[1]: *** [utils/hsc2hs/dist/package-data.mk] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> ghc-cabal: '/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg' exited with an error:
> ghc-pkg: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases
> (/Users/angerman/code/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf)
> use 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format.
> make[1]: *** [libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1
> 
> Does anyone know what needs to be done to make this work?
> 
> Best,
>  Moritz