[nhc-bugs] trouble compiling under Solaris x86

[Jon Bernard]

> > I'm having difficulty compiling nhc-1.12 for Solaris 2.8 x86. The
> > trouble seems to be with DErrno.hs:
>
> In fact, the error building DErrno.hs is just a symptom of a different
> problem.  You have bootstrapped nhc98 from C files using gcc, and the
> first time the new compiler is actually used is on the DErrno module.
> Thus, the error indicates a more general fault in the compiler itself,
> not a specific one with this source file.
>
> At a wild guess, is your version of gcc >= 3.0?

Yes, that was the problem. Thanks.

> > By the way, on Solaris /usr/ccs/bin/make and /usr/xpg4/bin/make complain
> > about unexpected end of lines in Makefile.inc (and other Makefiles).
>
> The nhc98 build requires GNU make, which might be installed as gmake
> on your system.

And you say as much in the INSTALL file, which I should have looked at
more closely.

But there are other problems:

1. ./configure tells me that fullname isn't found (though judging from the
script this would seem not to matter).

2. I get the same error messages as Feliks Kluzniak, who was trying to
build nhc on a Sparc Solaris system, namely

Fail: Can't find module FFI in
	.
  Or in standard libraries at

  Asked for by: HatTrace.gc
[Check settings of -I or -P flags?]

Stop - hmake dependency error.
gmake[1]: *** [/tmp/nhc98-1.12/lib/ix86-solaris2/hat-observe] Error 255
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nhc98-1.12/src/hat/tools'
gmake: *** [lib/ix86-solaris2/hat-stack] Error 2


As you suspected might be the case with Feliks, lib/ix86-solaris2/hmakerc
does not exist.

Poking around in configure, I see that script/hmake-config does something
with (creates?) hmakerc. hmake-config ends with

exec $HMAKEDIR/$MACHINE/MkConfig "$@"

but there is no MkConfig in lib/ix86-solaris2. Could this be the problem?

I tried building hmake from sources, in the hope of getting a MkConfig
binary, but was unsuccessful.

Thanks,
Jon