CVS Build problem

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:57:51 -0000


If you're building the CVS version of GHC, it usually helps to keep an =
eye on cvs-ghc@haskell.org where these kind of things are generally =
announced (in this case, I mentioned it in the commit message).  The =
building guide tends to lag a little, but it will get updated.

Cheers,
	Simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Daume III [mailto:hdaume@ISI.EDU]=20
> Sent: 13 February 2002 22:41
> To: Nicholas Nethercote
> Cc: GHC users list
> Subject: RE: CVS Build problem
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> Ah, thanks.  I was having the same problem but was too shy to=20
> ask about
> it, figuring it must be my bad.  This should probably be=20
> mentioend in the
> build documentation (hint, hint).
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>  - Hal
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> --
> Hal Daume III
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>  "Computer science is no more about computers    | hdaume@isi.edu
>   than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume
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> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
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> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
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> > > That's what I did.  It made ghc ok, but then when it=20
> tries the 'make
> > > boot' in hslibs it falls over.  The same happens if I change into
> > > $(BUILD)/hslibs and do 'make boot'...
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> > Ok, I've worked out the problem:  I just checked out the=20
> modules "ghc" and
> > "hslibs".  It seems that the standard library has just been=20
> moved into a
> > new separate module "libraries".  So my build was missing=20
> the standard
> > library which was causing the problem.
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> > --
> > Nick Nethercote
> > njn25@cam.ac.uk
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