building ghc-8.0 branch on Win10

[Josh Berman]

Yeah, I just saw that bug report, too. Thanks.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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