[Haskell-cafe] Re: getDirectoryContents still causing problems Re: problems building ycr2js (hopefully fixed)

[Thomas Hartman]

Based on my experience, I wouldn't recommend doing scons fullclean;
rather, I would darcs checkout and go from scratch. Annoying, but
seems to work better.

thomas.



2007/11/26, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com>:
> Thomas,
>
> This happens sometimes as Yhc depends on many other packages not very
> well in sync (e. g. FilePath). Plus, internal dependencies are not
> always tracked very well. Or binary core format gets upgraded (that
> means, the core linker does not accept older versions of core files,
> and all of them have to be regenerated).
>
> You may see sometimes recommendations in the Yhc mailing list: pull
> patches, then do scons fullclean. Or re-check the whole repo out,
> which is basically the same.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 11/26/07, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > False alarm.
> >
> > I rm -rf ed yhhc, fresh darcs got the latest yhc, reinstalled yhc, and redid
> >
> > (cd src/translator/js; make all install)
> >
> > and it built.
> >
> > 2007/11/26, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com>:
> > > Thomas,
> > >
> > > It looks like this comes from Yhc, not from the Javascript backend.
> > >
> > > Have you done the full sequence of (starting with clean repo)?
> > >
> > > darcs get darcs.haskell.org/yhc
> > > scons core=1 build
> > > scons prefix=... install # whatever your stuff goes, and yhc will be
> > > in bin/ from that, and this bin/ should be on your path
> > > (cd src/translator/js; make all install)
> > >
> > > Please let me know where it fails.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > On 11/26/07, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > still having problems darcs pulling your updates, related to System.FilePath.
> > > >
> > > > did you make clean and then make again?
> > > >
> > > > I darcs pulled everything.
> > > >
> > > > (cd src/translator/js; make all install)
> > > >
> > > > ... ...
> > > > (cd /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/src/translator/js/lib/haskell;
> > > > \
> > > >          for f in `find . -name '*.hs' | sort` ; do make -s -f
> > > > /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/src/translat\
> > > > or/js/Makefile `dirname $f`/`basename $f .hs`.ycr ; done)
> > > > yhc: /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/inst/lib/yhc/packages:
> > > > getDirectoryContents: does not exist (No such fi\
> > > > le or directory)
> > > >
> > > > -s flag silences, we don't want that, with verbose output again we see
> > > > that make is failing for a huge number of packages
> > > >
> > > > (cd /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/src/translator/js/lib/h\
> > > > askell; \
> > > >          for f in `find . -name '*.hs' | sort` ; do make -f
> > > > /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/src/translator/\
> > > > js/Makefile `dirname $f`/`basename $f .hs`.ycr ; done)
> > > > > yhc --core --no-bytecode CDOM/Level1/DomUtils.hs
> > > > yhc: /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/inst/lib/yhc/packages:
> > > > getDirectoryContents: does not exist (No such fi\
> > > > le or directory)
> > > >
> > > > make: *** [CDOM/Level1/DomUtils.ycr] Error 1
> > > > yhc --core --no-bytecode CDOM/Level1/Events.hs
> > > > yhc: /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/inst/lib/yhc/packages:
> > > > getDirectoryContents: does not exist (No such fi\
> > > > le or directory)
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > thartman at none:~/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/src/translator/js/lib/haskell>yhc
> > > > --core --no-bytecode CDOM/Level1/DomUtils\
> > > > .hs
> > > > yhc: /home/thartman/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc/inst/lib/yhc/packages:
> > > > getDirectoryContents: does not exist (No such fi\
> > > > le or directory)
> > > >
> > > > Unfamiliar with yhc, I couldn't figure out where getDirectory contents
> > > > is being called from.
> > > >
> > > > Grepping at the root, I guess something here is causing problems
> > > >
> > > > thartman at none:~/haskell-installs/yhc-install/yhc>grep -irl
> > > > getDirectoryContents *
> > > > Make/Useful.hs
> > > > inst/bin/yhc
> > > > src/compiler98/Package.hs
> > > > src/packages/yhc-base-1.0/System/Directory.hs
> > > > src/packages/haskell98-1.0/Directory.hs
> > > > src/tester/Main.hs
> > > > tests/conformance98/Directory/getDirContents/Main.hs
> > > >
> > > > best, thomas.
> > > >
> > > > 2007/11/25, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com>:
> > > > > Thomas,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Nov 25, 2007 5:50 PM, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Thanks Dmitri, I also had to fix an issue with System.FilePath,
> > > > > > there's a message about this on haskell cafe.
> > > > >
> > > > > In fact, takeDirectory is the right replacement for getDirectory in
> > > > > older FilePath. I have pushed this change too.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Dimitry Golubovsky
> > > > >
> > > > > Anywhere on the Web
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Dimitry Golubovsky
> > >
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> > >
> >
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