building ghc-8.0 branch on Win10

[Josh Berman]

Yeah, I cherry-picked that in, too - thanks!

Build works; thanks everyone.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Gabor Greif <ggreif at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/blobdiff/db5a22627b3e6bcc9fa17fbc070daa
> c0919b552a..1101045cbdbd6f240fa7e2438d9488822cd604fb:/utils/ghc-cabal/
> ghc.mk
>
> This might help...
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Gabor
>
>
> Em segunda-feira, 19 de setembro de 2016, Josh Berman <
> berman.josh at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> 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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