Rebuilding ghc

Dominic Steinitz dominic.steinitz at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jun 10 16:39:30 EDT 2008


I've built ghc previously and I assumed to keep it up to date I just did

darcs pull

followed by

make

but I got errors and according to the rebuilding instructions
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Rebuilding I shouldn't
have done that.

I therefore followed the instructions but got the following error. By
the way darcs-pull all seemed to require a lot of manual intervention.
Is there a way of getting the latest patches automatically and building
overnight without intervention?

Thanks, Dominic.

> if ifBuildable/ifBuildable /home/dom/ghc/libraries/boot-packages editline; then \
>           cd editline && \
>           cmp -s /home/dom/ghc/libraries/Makefile.local Makefile.local || cp /home/dom/ghc/libraries/Makefile.local .; \
>           mv GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.tmp; \
>           setup/Setup makefile -f GNUmakefile; \
>           cmp -s GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.tmp && mv GNUmakefile.tmp GNUmakefile; \
>           make -wr && \
>           setup/Setup register --inplace; \
>         fi
> mv: cannot stat `GNUmakefile': No such file or directory
> Preprocessing library editline-0.2...
> In file included from Editline.hsc:52:
> include/HsEditline.h:11: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘v’
> compiling dist/build/System/Console/Editline_hsc_make.c failed
> command was: gcc -c -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=609 -I/home/dom/ghc/includes -I/home/dom/ghc/gmp/gmpbuild -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=609 -Iinclude dist/build/System/Console/Editline_hsc_make.c -o dist/build/System/Console/Editline_hsc_make.o
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dom/ghc/libraries/editline'
> make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dom/ghc/libraries/editline'
> make[1]: *** [make.library.editline] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dom/ghc/libraries'
> make: *** [stage1] Error 2




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