How to compile unregisterised build?

[Simon Marlow]

On 04/01/2011 14:14, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 31/12/2010 19:53, Karel Gardas wrote:
>
>> before going to fill some bugreports about broken unregisterised builds
>> I'd like to be sure I understand the topic and know well how to
>> configure it.
>>
>> So, I do have three platforms with Linux OS:
>> - mips64: gcc 4.3.2 + ghc 6.8.2 (debian)
>> - ARMv7: gcc 4.4.1 + ghc 6.10.4 (Ubuntu)
>> - IA64: gcc 4.3.2 + ghc 6.8.2 (debian)
>>
>> on all three, I attempted to build 6.12.3 unregisterised by:
>>
>> ./boot
>> ./configure
>> cat > mk/build.mk
>> GhcUnregisterised=YES
>> GhcWithNativeCodeGen=NO
>> SplitObjs=NO
>> ^D
>> make
>>
>> On all three platforms this failed with:
>>
>> mips64:
>> "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -H32m -O -package-name ghc-prim-0.2.0.0
>> -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/ghc-prim/.
>> -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build
>> -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen
>> -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build
>> -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/.
>> -optP-include
>> -optPlibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h
>> -package rts-1.0 -package-name ghc-prim -XCPP -XMagicHash
>> -XForeignFunctionInterface -XUnliftedFFITypes -XUnboxedTuples
>> -XEmptyDataDecls -XNoImplicitPrelude -O2 -XGenerics
>> -fno-warn-deprecated-flags -odir
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hidir
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -stubdir
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hisuf hi -osuf o -hcsuf hc -c
>> libraries/ghc-prim/./GHC/Generics.hs -o
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Generics.o
>> In file included from /home/kgardas/src/ghc-6.12.3/includes/Stg.h:230,
>>
>> from /tmp/ghc14979_0/ghc14979_0.hc:3:0:
>> /tmp/ghc14979_0/ghc14979_0.hc: In function
>> ‘ghczmprim_GHCziGenerics_zdgtoUnit_entry’:
>>
>> /tmp/ghc14979_0/ghc14979_0.hc:17:0:
>> warning: implicit declaration of function ‘JMP_’
>> ghc-stage1: could not execute:
>> /home/kgardas/src/ghc-6.12.3/inplace/lib/ghc-asm
>> make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Generics.o]
>> Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> That ought to work, I think. We had an unregisterised nightly builder
> until fairly recently - that's something we should resurrect. In the
> meantime I'll try an unregisterised build manually and see if I can
> reproduce the problem.

My unregisterised build succeeded, incidentally:

~/builds/unreg > ./inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --info
  [("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System")
  ,("Project version","7.1")
  ,("Booter version","6.12.3")
  ,("Stage","2")
  ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
  ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
  ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
  ,("Have interpreter","YES")
  ,("Object splitting","NO")
  ,("Have native code generator","NO")
  ,("Support SMP","NO")
  ,("Unregisterised","YES")
  ,("Tables next to code","YES")
  ,("RTS ways","l debug     dyn debug_dyn ")
  ,("Leading underscore","NO")
  ,("Debug on","False")
  ,("LibDir","/64playpen/simonmar/unreg/inplace/lib")
  ,("Global Package 
DB","/64playpen/simonmar/unreg/inplace/lib/package.conf.d")
  ]
~/builds/unreg > cat mk/build.mk
GhcUnregisterised = YES
SplitObjs = NO
GhcLibWays = v

Cheers,
	Simon