[Haskell-iPhone] ghc-ios build issue

[Luke Iannini]

OK, pushed!

You'll need to run
./sync-all pull
to get all the fixes.

Please let me know if that sorts you out!
Cheers
Luke

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks so much for getting in touch!
>
> Entirely my fault, too many extant GHC checkouts : ).
>
> Just needed to cherry-pick a couple of commits to update dependencies.
> I'm giving it a full workthrough now and I'll push as soon as it's
> sorted.
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Robert Lorentz <robert.lorentz at me.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Last night I spoke to two very helpful folks (Stephen and Luke)  on the
>> matter of ghc-ios not building for me.  I haven't reached a solution yet and
>> thought I would post my issue. Stephen thought maybe there was a version
>> mismatch with Cabal, but Luke didn't seem to have any problems building..
>>
>> Any thoughts on what is going wrong here?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm following the directions EXPLICITLY from:
>> https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc/wiki
>>
>> I seem to have done the git branch selection properly:
>>
>> macbook-air:ghc rcl$ cd libraries/Cabal/Cabal/
>> macbook-air:Cabal rcl$ git branch
>> * ios
>>
>>
>> I'm using:
>>
>> macbook-air:ghc rcl$ ghc --version
>> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.1
>>
>> macbook-air:ghc rcl$ llc --version
>> Low Level Virtual Machine (http://llvm.org/):
>>   llvm version 3.0
>>   Optimized build.
>>   Built Nov 25 2012 (23:35:46).
>>   Host: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0
>>   Host CPU: i686
>>
>>   Registered Targets:
>>     alpha    - Alpha [experimental]
>>     arm      - ARM
>> …
>>
>> MacBook-Air:~ rcl$ uname -a
>> Darwin MacBook-Air.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25
>> 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>>
>> Mac OS X 10.8.2
>>
>>
>> Things I've tried since starting:
>>
>> At first, I had LLVM 3.1 so I switched.  Then I had the latest GHC 'Haskell
>> Package' which was 7.4.2, the wiki recommends 7.4.2 so I installed this
>> older version from Haskell Package 2012.2.0.0 64bit.  Then I thought perhaps
>> I need to install 32 bit Haskell Package; I did this (7.4.1) and it also
>> fails.
>>
>>
>>
>> When compiling ghc, Cabal fails:
>>
>> [68 of 68] Compiling Main             ( utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs,
>> bootstrapping/Main.o )
>>
>> utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs:287:67:
>>     Couldn't match expected type `Data.ByteString.Lazy.Internal.ByteString'
>>                 with actual type `String'
>>     In the return type of a call of `toUTF8'
>>     In the second argument of `writeFileAtomic', namely
>>       `(toUTF8 content)'
>>     In a stmt of a 'do' block:
>>       writeFileAtomic (distdir </> "inplace-pkg-config") (toUTF8 content)
>> make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal] Error 1
>>
>>
>> The build starts off like this:
>>
>> "/usr/bin/ghc" -H64m -O2 --make utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs -o
>> utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal \
>>       -no-user-package-conf \
>>       -Wall \
>>       -DCABAL_VERSION=1,17,0 \
>>       -odir  bootstrapping \
>>       -hidir bootstrapping \
>>       -ilibraries/Cabal/Cabal \
>>       -ilibraries/filepath \
>>       -ilibraries/hpc \
>>
>>
>>
>>
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