On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ashish SHUKLA
I hope this was the only hurdle we'd. Now any ideas how to sanitize the environment ? Using env(1) or any other better way ?
Yeah, I remember this nice error message :) I think the problem was around an uninitialized variable (describing packages) in the Makefile. I have managed to fix it back in January, but I do not know where I left the solution :P Anyway, if you find something to patch, it would be nice to post the cvs-ghc. I do not know exactly how to setup a Tinderbox-like jail (perhaps you should consult the sources), but GHC 6.12.x and 6.13 builds without any problems in a clean jailed environment for me. It seems Tinderbox is very picky... which is good for us in the long run. I solution would be to use the "enterBuild" feature of Tinderbox (I think I did that in January to hunt down the problem) but it requires root privileges. Cheers, :g