stage2 build fails

Simon Peyton Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Tue Jan 28 14:27:02 UTC 2020


|  Out of curiosity, is there a reason you are not using Hadrian in this
|  tree?

Yes... I tried again three weeks ago and ran into several obstacles that I asked about on ghc-devs at the time.  I'd be happy to re-state them when it's a good time to do so.

I think this thread is the most recent one:
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2019-December/018362.html

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
|  Sent: 28 January 2020 14:10
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; Stefan Schulze
|  Frielinghaus <ml at stefansf.de>
|  Cc: ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
|  Subject: RE: stage2 build fails
|  
|  Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:
|  
|  >   git clean -dfxq && git submodule foreach git clean -dfxq
|  >
|  > That made it work! Thank you.
|  >
|  > (Of course I have no idea *what* file 'make maintainer-clean' isn't
|  > removing, but maybe we should not worry over-much.)
|  >
|  Right, given that this only occurs with the make build system my
|  inclination has been to just live with it until we finally switch to
|  Hadrian.
|  
|  Out of curiosity, is there a reason you are not using Hadrian in this
|  tree?
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  - Ben



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