building ghc-8.0 branch on Win10

[Phyx]

Hi Josh,

Yes you are hitting a bug in configure that was exposed due to changes in
msys.

Cherry-pick this commit to your branch
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12487

Tamar

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 12:24 Josh Berman <berman.josh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was able to build the "master" branch of ghc 8.0.1 using the
> instructions found here:
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows
>
> When I switched to the "ghc-8.0" branch, though, I get the following error:
>
> configure: error:
>> You've selected:
>>   BUILD:  x86_64-w64-mingw32   (the architecture we're building on)
>>   HOST:   x86_64-unknown-mingw32    (the architecture the compiler we're
>> building will execute on)
>>   TARGET: x86_64-unknown-mingw32  (the architecture the compiler we're
>> building will produce code for)
>> BUILD must equal HOST; that is, we do not support building GHC itself
>> with a cross-compiler.  To cross-compile GHC itself, set TARGET: stage
>> 1 will be a cross-compiler, and stage 2 will be the cross-compiled
>> GHC.
>
>
>
> Anyone know off the top of their heads what the issue is?
>
> Thanks,
> - Josh Berman
> _______________________________________________
> ghc-devs mailing list
> ghc-devs at haskell.org
> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/attachments/20160919/87b4a2ba/attachment.html>