[Haskell-cafe] Error building GHC 6.8.3: "version of ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace could not be determined"

[Devin Mullins]

Hi,

I'm trying to build 6.8.3 on Linux PowerPC, based on an old binary of
6.4 (latest build for this arch that I found). stage1 seems to have
built, but from there, building libraries almost immediately fails:

> make -C libraries all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/twifkak/arch/ghc/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries'
> rm -f -f stamp/configure.library.*.base base/unbuildable
> ( cd base && setup/Setup configure \
> 	            --enable-library-profiling --enable-split-objs \
> 	           --prefix=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --bindir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --libdir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --libsubdir='$pkgid' \
> 	           --libexecdir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --datadir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --docdir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --htmldir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --interfacedir=/NONEXISTANT \
> 	           --with-compiler=../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace \
> 	           --with-hc-pkg=../../utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace \
> 	           --with-hsc2hs=../../utils/hsc2hs/hsc2hs-inplace \
> 	           --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld \
> 	           --haddock-options="--use-contents=../index.html \
> 	                           --use-index=../doc-index.html" \
> 	              --configure-option='--prefix=/usr'  --configure-option='CFLAGS=-mtune=powerpc -O2 -pipe -mpowerpc-gfxopt' \
> 	           --configure-option=--with-cc=gcc ) \
> 	      && touch stamp/configure.library.build-profiling-splitting.base || touch base/unbuildable
> Configuring base-3.0.2.0...
> Setup: ghc version >=6.2 is required but the version of ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace could not be determined.
> if ifBuildable/ifBuildable base; then \
> 	  cd base && \
> 	  cmp -s ../Makefile.local Makefile.local || cp ../Makefile.local .; \
> 	  mv GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.tmp; \
> 	  setup/Setup makefile -f GNUmakefile; \
> 	  cmp -s GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.tmp && mv GNUmakefile.tmp GNUmakefile; \
> 	  make -wr && \
> 	  setup/Setup register --inplace; \
> 	fi
> mv: cannot stat `GNUmakefile': No such file or directory
> Setup: error reading dist/setup-config; run "setup configure" command?
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/twifkak/arch/ghc/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base'
> make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/twifkak/arch/ghc/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base'
> make[1]: *** [make.library.base] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/twifkak/arch/ghc/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries'
> make: *** [stage1] Error 2

(This particular transcript is from an unclean build, but the same error
occurred on a freshly untarred ghc.)

The subsequent errors seems to stem from the root one of being unable to
configure:

> [twifkak at ponyride base]$ setup/Setup configure -v3
> Configuring base-3.0.2.0...
> Creating dist (and its parents)
> /home/twifkak/usr/bin/ghc --numeric-version
> Warning: cannot determine version of /home/twifkak/usr/bin/ghc :
> ""
> Setup: ghc version >=6.2 is required but the version of /home/twifkak/usr/bin/ghc could not be determined.
> [twifkak at ponyride base]$ ghc --numeric-version
> 6.4
> [twifkak at ponyride base]$ setup/Setup configure --with-compiler=../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -v3
> Configuring base-3.0.2.0...
> Creating dist (and its parents)
> ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace --numeric-version
> Warning: cannot determine version of ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace :
> ""
> Setup: ghc version >=6.2 is required but the version of ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace could not be determined.
> [twifkak at ponyride base]$ ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace --numeric-version
> 6.8.3

What's going wrong? How do I fix it? Is there a better mailing list to
ask?

Thanks,
Devin