Rebuilding ghc changes interface hashes?

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Tue Apr 5 19:07:00 CEST 2011


Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 05.04.2011, 18:51 +0200 schrieb Matthias Kilian:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:59:23PM +0530, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Also, the initial upload was built using ghc-6.12.1, while the upload
> > now is build with ghc-7.0.2. Given that it is a two-stage compiler, I
> > assume that the output should be identical, but it seems not to be the
> > case.
> 
> Changing the bootstrapping compiler changes the ABIs. The same can
> happen if you interrupt and restart the build.
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4012

thanks for the pointer. I wish I had known earlier (no offence!) and
made an extra round of ghc uploads before uploading several dozend of
libraries, which need to be rebuild now.

Greetings,
Joachim

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