ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.1

[Simon Marlow]

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Hi Philip,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote:
>> Booting libraries/base
>> Booting libraries/directory
>> /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS
>>   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>>   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> 
> I still don't understand why this would happen.
> 
>> The make still fails on the absence of (a rule for) DerivedConstants.h:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Somewhere near the beginning of make's output, where the output for "make
>> boot" is logged, it does seem to have created DerivedConstants.h:
> 
> I still don't understand why this would happen either.
> 
> 
> I can't even really think of anything useful to suggest. Anyone else got
> any ideas?

maybe add a test right after the creation of DerivedConstants.h in 
includes/Makefile:

DerivedConstants.h : mkDerivedConstantsHdr
	./mkDerivedConstantsHdr >$@
	test -f $@ || exit 1

at least that will tell us whether it was never there to start with, or it 
got removed later on.

If it weren't for the fact that this seems repeatable, I'd say you have 
need to run fsck on that filesystem.  There's definitely something strange 
going on...

Cheers,
	Simon