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<div>I am trying to build GHC-HEAD and produce a reliable Dockerfile (see: docker.io) to allow others to use GHC-HEAD and also to make my own build process more reliable. I would like advice/assistance on two things to help this. For reference, I am using the
stackbrew/ubuntu:13.10 image as my starting point, and bootstrapping GHC to HEAD using the current GHC (7.6.x) in Ubuntu's repositories.<br>
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First issue: I am having issues with constraining the resource consumption during the build and have resorted to a few hacks such as replacing ld with gold (or rather, a script that filters out --hash-size arguments) and a custom build.mk file that uses -fasm
for stage1. I would also like the final (stage 2?) result to be compiled with llvm, perhaps even without requiring gcc installed at all. How can I continue to push down the resource requirements of a build, and end up with a GHC that represents the bleeding
edge? (That is what I want to be testing against, finding bugs for, etc.)</div>
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<div>Here is my build.mk:</div>
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<div>################## BUILD.MK</div>
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<div># Default to a very fast build for compilation and stage1:<br>
SRC_HC_OPTS = -H64m -O0<br>
GhcStage1HcOpts = -O -fasm</div>
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<div># But then use perf-llvm settings for remaining settings:</div>
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<div>GhcStage2HcOpts = -O2 -fllvm<br>
GhcHcOpts = -Rghc-timing<br>
GhcLibHcOpts = -O2 -fllvm -XGenerics<br>
GhcLibWays += p</div>
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<div>DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = NO<br>
DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO</div>
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<div># Disable building all docs</div>
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<div>HADDOCK_DOCS = NO<br>
BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML = NO<br>
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS = NO<br>
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF = NO</div>
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<div>################## BUILD.MK</div>
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<div>Second issue: These seem to bring memory usage down, but the monolithic “.\make” command is difficult to debug and very time consuming. When building a container image from a Dockerfile, the commands used are cached so that subsequent attempted builds
use the intermediate results. So, even though my Dockerfile starts out with “apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y”, I don’t have to do that every time I retry my build.
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<div>Currently my Dockerfile pulls all the requisite packages from Ubuntu’s repos, downloads and builds the latest cabal-install and builds alex, happy, hscolour and haddock, gets the ghc repo from GitHub, does “perl boot” “.\configure” and then I hit a wall
with the monstrous amount of work that “.\make” does. I have tried splitting it up by doing “.\make stage=1”, “.\make 1”, and various combinations, but I hit dependency issues. Is there a way to break up the build into multiple commands?</div>
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