building ghc-8.0 branch on Win10

[Josh Berman]

Sorry to pester - now 'make' is failing:

===--- building phase 0
> make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
> "/mingw64/bin/ghc.exe" -O0 -H64m -Wall \
>        -optc-Wall -optc-Werror -optc-fno-stack-protector \
>         \
>        -hide-all-packages \
>        -package base -package array -package time -package containers
> -package bytestring -package deepseq -package process -package pretty
> -package directory -package Win32 \
>        --make utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs -o
> utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal.exe \
>        -no-user-package-db \
>        -Wall -fno-warn-unused-imports -fno-warn-warnings-deprecations \
>        -DCABAL_VERSION=      1,25,0,0 \
>        -DMIN_VERSION_binary_0_8_0 \
>        -DBOOTSTRAPPING \
>        -optP-include -optPutils/ghc-cabal/cabal_macros_boot.h \
>        -odir  bootstrapping \
>        -hidir bootstrapping \
>        -ilibraries/Cabal/Cabal \
>        -ilibraries/binary/src -DGENERICS \
>        -ilibraries/filepath \
>        -ilibraries/hpc \
> target `1,25,0,0' is not a module name or a source file
> ghc/ghc.mk:111: ghc/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-cabal/ghc.mk:48:
> utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal.exe] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2


I updated my cabal to be 1.25, thinking that might be the issue, but now I
realize that was probably irrelevant.

Any further ideas? (This time, I searched trac before emailing... but
didn't find anything).

Thanks,
- Josh


On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Josh Berman <berman.josh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/g
>> hc/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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>>
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