Problem with porting GHC

[Simon Marlow]

On 04 May 2005 07:46, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:57:23PM -0400, Liwen Huang wrote:
>> However, when I execute the last command of cross-compilation, I get
>> another problem. 
>> 
>> $make hc-file-bundle Project=Ghc
>> I have following error msg.
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> echo ghc-6.4/libraries/base/GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs >> hc-files-to-go
>> echo ghc-6.4/ghc/compiler/parser/Parser.hs >> hc-files-to-go
>> echo ghc-6.4/ghc/compiler/parser/ParserCore.hs >> hc-files-to-go
>> echo ghc-6.4/ghc/compiler/main/ParsePkgConf.hs >> hc-files-to-go
>> echo ghc-6.4/libraries/haskell-src/Language/Haskell/Parser.hs >>
>> hc-files-to-go tar czf ghc-6.4-i386-pc-nto-qnx6.2.0-hc.tar.gz `cat
>> hc-files-to-go` 
>> tar: ghc-6.4/ghc/rts/AutoApply_thr.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or
>> directory tar: ghc-6.4/ghc/rts/AutoApply_thr_p.hc: Cannot stat: No
>> such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4/ghc/rts/AutoApply_debug.hc:
>> Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from
>> previous errors 
>> make: *** [hc-file-bundle] Error 2
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I was getting the following while porting ghc-6.4-branch to GNU/Hurd:
> #v+
> $ make hc-file-bundle Project=Ghc
> [...]
> echo ghc-6.4/ghc/compiler/main/ParsePkgConf.hs >> hc-files-to-go
> echo ghc-6.4/libraries/haskell-src/Language/Haskell/Parser.hs >>
> hc-files-to-go 
> tar czf ghc-6.4-i386-unknown-gnu-hc.tar.gz `cat hc-files-to-go`
> tar: ghc-6.4/ghc/rts/AutoApply_thr_p.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory 
> tar: ghc-6.4/ghc/rts/AutoApply_thr.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory 
> tar: ghc-6.4/ghc/rts/AutoApply_debug.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory 
> tar: ghc-6.4/libraries/haskell-src/Language/Haskell/Parser.hs: Cannot
> stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous
> errors 
> make: *** [hc-file-bundle] Error 2
> #v-
> 
>> Since it is mentioned in the documentation, that we can ignore "rts
>> error",
>> and the gz file is successfully generated. I decide to try the next
>> step. It it safe to do so?
> 
> I continued with the incomplete tarball of .hc files and didn't have
> any 
> problems related to that (AFAICT), apart from having to unpack
> happy-1.15/happy into the build tree and run 'make -C happy boot all'
> before continuing the build.

Yes, the lack of those files isn't fatal.

Cheers,
	Simon