Automating GHC build for Windows

[Gintautas Miliauskas]

Can you try running the offending command with -v to see which step breaks?
I tried running it locally under strace but did not see any file renames
either.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Páli Gábor János <pali.gabor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2014-10-26 18:17 GMT+01:00 Gintautas Miliauskas <gintautas at miliauskas.lt>:
> > Maybe it's something silly like one process not having enough
> > time to clean up and close the file before the next command tries to move
> > it? I'd add a sleep before the mv and see if that helps.
>
> I am far from understanding all the details of the problem, but I
> believe the move operation originates from the ghc-cabal binary.  For
> what it is worth, I could not even find the place in the sources where
> the referenced MoveFileEx is called:
>
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal.exe" configure libraries/binary dist-boot ""
> --with-ghc="/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc.exe"
> --with-ghc-pkg="/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc-pkg"
>
> --package-db=C:/msys32/home/ghc-builder/work/builder/tempbuild/build/libraries/bootstrapping.conf
> --disable-library-for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla
> --enable-library-for-ghci --disable-library-profiling --disable-shared
> --with-hscolour="/c/Users/ghc-builder/AppData/Roaming/cabal/bin/HsColour"
> --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -U__i686 -march=i686 -fno-stack-protector
>  " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="   " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="   "
> --gcc-options=" -U__i686 -march=i686 -fno-stack-protector       "
> --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"
> --with-gcc="C:/msys32/ghc-7.6.3/lib/../mingw/bin/gcc.exe"
> --configure-option=--with-cc="C:/msys32/ghc-7.6.3/lib/../mingw/bin/gcc.exe"
> --with-ar="C:/msys32/ghc-7.6.3/lib/../mingw/bin/ar.exe"
> --with-alex="/c/Users/ghc-builder/AppData/Roaming/cabal/bin/alex"
> --with-happy="/c/Users/ghc-builder/AppData/Roaming/cabal/bin/happy"
> Configuring binary-0.7.1.0...
> ghc-cabal.exe: dist-boot\setup-config3736.tmp: MoveFileEx
> "dist-boot\\setup-config3736.tmp" "dist-boot\\setup-config":
> permission denied (Access is denied.)
> libraries/binary/ghc.mk:3: recipe for target
> 'libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk' failed
>
> > Does the build
> > proceed if you try "make" without cleaning the repository, or does it
> hang
> > again at the same spot?
>
> It is fully reproducible by the subsequent make(1) invocations as
> well, that is, yes, it hangs at the same spot.
>
> 2014-10-28 17:18 GMT+01:00 Gintautas Miliauskas
> <gintautas.miliauskas at gmail.com>:
> > Any luck with getting the Windows continuous builds back up and running?
>
> No, not yet.  But I will keep posted on the results.
>
> > I'd be willing to try to help out if remote access is available
>
> I think this could be arranged.
>
> > although the
> > build environment should be updated first in case that's the source of
> the
> > trouble.
>
> Right, I will contact you off-list about this once I moved to
> toolchain versions to the ones recommended at the Windows build page.
>



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