Bootstrapping the compiler

[Colin Paul Adams]

I tried again with the same result.

Is this a known problem, or do I have investigate myself?
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <colin at colina.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Colin> I have just downloaded a darcs snapshot, pulled patches and
    Colin> followed the instructions at
    Colin> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/QuickStart

    Colin> When I got to do

    Colin> make

    Colin> it didn't work. The tail of the output looks like this:

    Colin> [55 of 55] Compiling Main ( cabal-bin.hs,
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping/Main.o ) Linking
    Colin> cabal-bin ...  echo "[]" > bootstrapping.conf.tmp cd
    Colin> extensible-exceptions &&
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/cabal-bin ghc --make
    Colin> -fno-warn-unrecognised-pragmas
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf 1.7.0 clean
    Colin> --distpref=dist-bootstrapping unrecognised command:
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf (try --help)
    Colin> make[1]: [bootstrapping.conf] Error 1 (ignored) cd
    Colin> extensible-exceptions &&
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/cabal-bin ghc --make
    Colin> -fno-warn-unrecognised-pragmas
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf 1.7.0
    Colin> configure --distpref=dist-bootstrapping --with-compiler=ghc
    Colin> --make -fno-warn-unrecognised-pragmas
    Colin> --with-hc-pkg=/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg
    Colin> --package-db=/home/colin/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf.tmp
    Colin> unrecognised command:
    Colin> /home/colin/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf (try --help)
    Colin> make[1]: *** [bootstrapping.conf] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving
    Colin> directory `/home/colin/ghc/libraries' make: *** [stage1]
    Colin> Error 2

    Colin> I then tried the following:

    Colin> [colin at susannah ghc]$ ls libraries/bootstrapping.conf ls:
    Colin> cannot access libraries/bootstrapping.conf: No such file or
    Colin> directory [colin at susannah ghc]$ ls
    Colin> libraries/bootstrapping.conf.tmp
    Colin> libraries/bootstrapping.conf.tmp


    Colin> It looks to me like all I have to do is to rename

    Colin> libraries/bootstrapping.conf.tmp

    Colin> to

    Colin> libraries/bootstrapping.conf

    Colin> but I don't see why this is happening.

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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire