Problem building on NetBSD Alpha - Dynamic link dependency?

[jim burton]

Thanks for that, the configure script gets to the end with that help.
Following the instructions at
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting#PortingGHCtoanewplatform , I then try to make includes but get a big stream of errors from make. Why is this?

$ cd includes
$ make              
make: "/arpa/j/jim/ghc-6.8.2/includes/../mk/boilerplate.mk" line 38:
Need an operator
make: "/arpa/j/jim/ghc-6.8.2/includes/../mk/boilerplate.mk" line 41:
Need an operator
[...]
make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 90: Need an operator
make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 91: Need an operator
make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 97: Need an operator
make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 100: Need an operator
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

Thanks,

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 22:00 +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:42:21PM +0000, jim burton wrote:
> > I'm trying to build unregistered 6.8.2 on NetBSD Alpha 2.1.0_STABLE -- I
> > have the following problem which seems to be same as this one -
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1860 
> 
> No, I think it's another problem.
> 
> > $ ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregistered
> [...]
> > checking for ld... /usr/bin/ld
> > checking for path to top of build tree... ./configure[3201]: -v0: not
> > found
> > ./configure[3203]: utils/pwd/pwd: not found
> > configure: error: cannot determine current directory
> 
> What happens here is that configure tries to compile some utility
> program (utils/pwd/pwd) using an existing ghc, which of course is
> impossible when you're porting ghc a platform not already running
> ghc. Similar problems are located in libraries and the Cabal-generated
> GNUmakefiles.
> 
> For the utils/pwd/pwd problem, I really don't understand why that
> thing is required at all, since it does little more than get the
> pwd and add some slash or backslash escaping/quadrupling depending
> on the argument passed to it.
> 
> You may try the patch below (and don't forget to re-run autoconf).
> 
> Note that this is the quick hack I did for OpenBSD. If the forward slash
> hack of util/pwd is really required (for Windows builds?), something
> like
> 
> hardtop=`pwd | tr '\\' /`
> 
> would be more appropriate. And the other sanity checks I deleted
> may be necessary in some cases, too, but I really don't see the
> point in them.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Kili
> 
> ps: IMHO, libaries/ifBuildable.hs should die a horrible death, too.
> It can replaced with a few lines of shell commands..
> 
> 
> --- aclocal.m4.orig	Mon Dec 10 19:11:31 2007
> +++ aclocal.m4	Fri Jan  4 13:58:49 2008
> @@ -1098,28 +1098,7 @@ AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
>  AC_DEFUN([FP_FIND_ROOT],[
>  AC_MSG_CHECKING(for path to top of build tree)
>  
> -dnl This would be
> -dnl     make -C utils/pwd clean && make -C utils/pwd
> -dnl except we don't want to have to know what make is called. Sigh.
> -if test ! -f utils/pwd/pwd && test ! -f utils/pwd/pwd.exe; then
> -  cd utils/pwd
> -  rm -f *.o
> -  rm -f *.hi
> -  rm -f pwd
> -  rm -f pwd.exe
> -  $WithGhc -v0 --make pwd -o pwd
> -  cd ../..
> -fi
> -
> -hardtop=`utils/pwd/pwd forwardslash`
> -
> -if ! test -d "$hardtop"; then
> -  AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot determine current directory])
> -fi   
> -
> -dnl Remove common automounter nonsense
> -dnl
> -hardtop=`echo $hardtop | sed 's|^/tmp_mnt.*\(/local/.*\)$|\1|' | sed 's|^/tmp_mnt/|/|'`
> +hardtop=`pwd`
>  
>  AC_SUBST(hardtop)
>  
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