can't validate on Linux

[Richard Eisenberg]

This was a fresh validation run, so make distclean won’t do it. And deleting the file makes no difference. For what it’s worth, I ran with CPUS=1 (instead of my usual CPUS=32) to avoid threading problems.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
Richard

> On Mar 13, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
> 
> Richard Eisenberg <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu> writes:
> 
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> When I try validating my patch, validation fails with
>> 
>>> ...
>>> Registering library for ghc-prim-0.5.0.0..
>>> ghc-cabal: '/home/rae/ghc/ghc-valid/bindisttest/install
>>> dir/lib/ghc-8.3.20170312/bin/ghc-pkg' exited with an error:
>>> ghc-pkg: Couldn't open database /home/rae/ghc/ghc-valid/bindisttest/install
>>> dir/lib/ghc-8.3.20170312/package.conf.d for modification: {handle:
>>> /home/rae/ghc/ghc-valid/bindisttest/install
>>> dir/lib/ghc-8.3.20170312/package.conf.d/package.cache.lock}: hLock: invalid
>>> argument (Bad file descriptor)
>>> make[3]: *** [ghc.mk:990: install_packages] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:51: install] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [bindisttest/ghc.mk:33: test_bindist] Error 2
>>> make: *** [Makefile:127: test_bindist] Error 2
>> 
> This is when I typically `make distclean`. That being said, this does
> look a bit suspicious. Let me know if cleaning doesn't help.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben