CVS Build problem

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:58:57 -0000


> I just checked a fresh copy of ghc + hslibs out of CVS, and=20
> tried doing a
> vanilla build.  It fell over doing "make boot" in hslibs. =20
> Here are the
> last few make messages:
...
> ../../ghc/utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace --update-package
> <lang.conf.inplace
> Reading package info from stdin... done.
> Expanding embedded variables...done.
> dependency `base' doesn't exist
> make[2]: *** [boot] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/scratch-4/njn25/ws2/build2/hslibs'
> make: *** [all] Error 1

You need to 'make all' in fptools/ghc before 'make boot' in hslibs.  The =
top-level fptools Makefile will arrange this if you just say 'make' at =
the top level.

Cheers,
	Simon