Problem building on host machine when trying to cross-compile an unregistered build

[Jim Burton]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:23 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Jim Burton wrote:
[...]
> First thing to note is that bootstrapping from HC files has bitrotted in 
> 6.8.x, see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1346.  I've updated 
> the wiki instructions to say this.  You should go back to 6.6.x, or be 
> prepared to fix things...  I thought I remembered someone saying recently 
> they were looking into getting bootstrapping working again, but I can't 
> seem to find it now.
> 

Hi,thanks for your help. I'll try 6.6.1 and let you know how I get on. 

Jim
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:41 +0000, jb162 at brighton.ac.uk wrote:
> >> Hi, host machine is Linux i386 and the target is NetBSD alpha, ghc
> >> 6.8.2. With the help of the list the first part (on the target) is done
> >> and I'm building the compiler on the host -- when building rts I get 
> >>
> >> "cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mieee"
> 
> It looks like this comes from mk/bootstrap.mk, which says:
> 
> ifeq "$(alpha_TARGET_ARCH)" "1"
> PLATFORM_CC_OPTS += -static -w
> PLATFORM_HC_BOOT_CC_OPTS += -mieee
> endif
> 
> So someone in the past thought it was a good idea to pass this option when 
> compiling .hc files.  I can't tell you any more than that - perhaps just 
> removing that line will get you going again.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
> 
> 
> >> What's this about? (I notice a couple of seemingly ignorable warnings in
> >> the following, about missing gmpbuild and libHSrts.a. Is that relevant?)
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> jim at mowa624-jb162:~/ghc-6.8.2/compiler$ cd ../rts && make boot && make
> >> gcc -E  -undef -traditional -P \
> >>                 -DIMPORT_DIR='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/libraries/rts"' \
> >>                 -DLIB_DIR='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/libraries/rts"' \
> >>
> >> -DINCLUDE_DIR='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/libraries/rts/include"' \
> >>                 -DDATA_DIR='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/libraries/rts"' \
> >>                 -DHTML_DIR='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/libraries/rts/html"' \
> >>
> >> -DHADDOCK_IFACE='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/libraries/rts/html/rts.haddock"' \
> >>                 -DFPTOOLS_TOP_ABS='"/home/jim/ghc-6.8.2"' \
> >>                 -x c -DGMP_INCLUDE_DIRS='' -DGMP_LIB_DIRS=''
> >> -I../includes -Iinclude -DPACKAGE=rts -DVERSION=
> >> -DPKG_LIBDIR='"/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2"'
> >> -DPKG_DATADIR='"/usr/local/share/ghc-6.8.2"' package.conf.in | \
> >>         grep -v '^#pragma GCC' | \
> >>         sed -e 's/""//g' -e 's/:[       ]*,/: /g' >package.conf.inplace
> >> ../utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace update - --force-files
> >> <package.conf.inplace
> >> Reading package info from stdin ... done.
> >> /home/jim/ghc-6.8.2/gmp/gmpbuild doesn't exist or isn't a directory
> >> (ignoring)
> >> cannot find libHSrts.a on library path (ignoring)
> >> Saving old package config file... done.
> >> Writing new package config file... done.
> >> ../utils/mkdependC/mkdependC -f .depend -I. -I../includes -DPROFILING
> >> -DTHREADED_RTS -DDEBUG -Ihooks -Iparallel -Ism -Iposix -I../includes
> >> -s debug -- -O -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes
> >> -Wmissing-declarations -Winline -Waggregate-return -I../includes -I.
> >> -Iparallel -Ism -DCOMPILING_RTS -fomit-frame-pointer -DNOSMP
> >> -I../gmp/gmpbuild -fno-strict-aliasing    -- Adjustor.c Arena.c
> >> Capability.c ClosureFlags.c Disassembler.c FrontPanel.c Hash.c Hpc.c
> >> HsFFI.c Interpreter.c LdvProfile.c Linker.c Main.c Papi.c Printer.c
> >> ProfHeap.c Profiling.c Proftimer.c RaiseAsync.c RetainerProfile.c
> >> RetainerSet.c RtsAPI.c RtsFlags.c RtsMessages.c RtsStartup.c RtsUtils.c
> >> STM.c Sanity.c Schedule.c Sparks.c Stable.c Stats.c StgCRun.c
> >> StgPrimFloat.c Task.c ThreadLabels.c ThreadPaused.c Threads.c Ticky.c
> >> Timer.c Trace.c Typeable.c Weak.c hooks/FlagDefaults.c
> >> hooks/InitEachPE.c hooks/MallocFail.c hooks/OnExit.c hooks/OutOfHeap.c
> >> hooks/RtsOpts.c hooks/ShutdownEachPEHook.c hooks/StackOverflow.c
> >> parallel/0Hash.c parallel/0Unpack.c parallel/Dist.c parallel/Global.c
> >> parallel/GranSim.c parallel/HLComms.c parallel/LLComms.c parallel/Pack.c
> >> parallel/ParInit.c parallel/ParTicky.c parallel/Parallel.c
> >> parallel/ParallelDebug.c parallel/RBH.c posix/FileLock.c posix/GetTime.c
> >> posix/Itimer.c posix/OSMem.c posix/OSThreads.c posix/Select.c
> >> posix/Signals.c sm/BlockAlloc.c sm/Compact.c sm/Evac.c sm/GC.c
> >> sm/GCUtils.c sm/MBlock.c sm/MarkWeak.c sm/Scav.c sm/Storage.c 
> >> ../compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-O -optc-Wall -optc-W
> >> -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes
> >> -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return
> >> -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel -optc-Ism
> >> -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-DNOSMP
> >> -optc-I../gmp/gmpbuild -optc-fno-strict-aliasing -H16m -O -H32m
> >> -keep-hc-files -package-name rts -optc-DNOSMP -static -I../gmp/gmpbuild
> >> -I. -#include HCIncludes.h -dcmm-lint     -c Adjustor.c -o Adjustor.o
> >> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mieee"
> >> make: *** [Adjustor.o] Error 1
> >>
> >>
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