Newbish building question

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 11:44:19 EST 2008


J. Garrett Morris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been attempting to add some minor instrumentation to my pet copy
> of GHC 6.10.1.  In particular, I'd like to add some code to
> extendInstEnv in compiler/types/InstEnv.lhs.
> 
> First, I tried importing Debug.Trace into the InstEnv module, and
> changing the extendInstEnv function to trace "foobar".  This built
> file, although was not tremendously useful.
> 
> Next, I tried the following modification:
> 
> extendInstEnv :: InstEnv -> Instance -> InstEnv
> extendInstEnv inst_env ins_item@(Instance { is_cls = cls_nm, is_tcs = mb_tcs })
>  = trace (showSDocDebug (ppr ins_item)) (addToUFM_C add inst_env
> cls_nm (ClsIE [ins_item] ins_tyvar))
>  where
>    add (ClsIE cur_insts cur_tyvar) _ = ClsIE (ins_item : cur_insts)
>                                              (ins_tyvar || cur_tyvar)
>    ins_tyvar = not (any isJust mb_tcs)
> 
> This produced the following error message:
> 
> home/garrett/code/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc -package-name
> base-4.0.0.0-hide-all-packages -no-user-package-conf -split-objs -i
> -idist/build -i. -idist/build/autogen -Idist/build/autogen
> -Idist/build -Iinclude -optP-include
> -optPdist/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -#include "HsBase.h" -odir
> dist/build -hidir dist/build -stubdir dist/build -package
> ghc-prim-0.1.0.0 -package integer-0.1.0.0 -package rts-1.0 -O
> -package-name base -XMagicHash -XExistentialQuantification
> -XRank2Types -XScopedTypeVariables -XUnboxedTuples
> -XForeignFunctionInterface -XUnliftedFFITypes -XDeriveDataTypeable
> -XGeneralizedNewtypeDeriving -XFlexibleInstances -XPatternSignatures
> -XStandaloneDeriving -XPatternGuards -XEmptyDataDecls -XCPP
> -idist/build  -H32m -O -O2 -Rghc-timing -XGenerics -Wall
> -fno-warn-deprecated-flags -c Data/Maybe.hs -o dist/build/Data/Maybe.o
>  -ohi dist/build/Data/Maybe.hi
> dist/build/GHC/Base.hi
> Dict fun GHC.Base.$f9:
>   Interface file inconsistency:
>     home-package module `base:GHC.Base' is needed,
>     but is not listed in the dependencies of the interfaces directly
> imported by the module being compiled
> Cannot continue after interface file error
> <<ghc: 20271680 bytes, 2 GCs, 132152/132152 avg/max bytes residency (1
> samples), 31M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.02 elapsed), 0.06 MUT (0.14
> elapsed), 0.03 GC (0.04 elapsed) :ghc>>

This is rather strange.  It looks like an error when compiling Data.Maybe 
in the base package.  I'm not sure why that would need to be recompiled at 
all, and the error itself is strange.

Anyway, when modifying GHC you only need to say 'make' in compiler/, not at 
the top-level, that is unless you really want to recompile libraries, in 
which case you should probably 'make clean' in libraries/, then 'make boot' 
and 'make'.

Cheers,
	Simon


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