Hi Simon,
I think you’re right,
That pattern in the error is the one we pass to find
find "${base_dir}" -name "*.tar.xz" -exec tar xfJ {} \;
on line 334 of configure.ac which is supposed to unpack the files.
That the download script doesn’t output nothing makes sense now since the hashes of the files match.
I *think* what’s going on here is that for some reason you don’t have findutils installed and it’s instead using
The windows “find” utility, which generates that error.
C:\Users\Tamar>find *.tar.xz
File not found - *.tar.xz
Try re-installing findutils, pacman -S findutils, and if find –version doesn’t return the findutils one check your PATH settings.
Cheers,
Tamar
From: Simon Peyton Jones
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 10:18
To: lonetiger@gmail.com
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Msys2 64: progress
It’s bizarre that pacman won’t let us downgrade curl!
I don’t know how to do that with pacman, so instead maybe try:
pacman -S wget
wget -qO - http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1
wget -qO - http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1
I tried this. All three commands succeeded, the latter two with no output at all. But once more “./configure” fails with the same message “File not found - *.tar.xz”. It is a bizarre message isn’t it?
A lot of files are there:
/c/code/HEAD$ ls ghc-tarballs/mingw-w64/
x86_64
/c/code/HEAD$ ls ghc-tarballs/mingw-w64/x86_64/
mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils-2.25.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git-5.0.0.4531.49c7046-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-5.2.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs-5.2.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-gmp-6.0.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git-5.0.0.4531.49c7046-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-isl-0.14.1-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv-1.14-5-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git-5.0.0.4538.78dca70-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-mpc-1.0.3-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-mpfr-3.1.3.p0-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git-5.0.0.4538.78dca70-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib-1.2.8-8-any.pkg.tar.xz
/c/code/HEAD$ ls ghc-tarballs/perl/
ghc-perl-1.tar.gz
All I need is for ‘configure’ to get on and un-tar them! Maybe the problem isn’t with curl at all?
Simon
From: lonetiger@gmail.com [mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 June 2016 23:27
To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Msys2 64: progress
Hi Simon,
I’m not sure what’s going on there.
I updated my curl to 7.49.1 and I am experiencing the same silent death (--version doesn’t even work for me then which is weird).
In any case, downgrading back to 7.48.0 worked for me.
I don’t know how to do that with pacman, so instead maybe try:
pacman -S wget
wget -qO - http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1
wget -qO - http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1
If it doesn’t work, to upgrade again to 7.49.1 you can just do pacman -S curl libcurl
Kind Regards,
Tamar
From: Simon Peyton Jones
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 21:13
To: lonetiger@gmail.com
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Msys2 64: progress
Actually I had the command right; copy/paste somehow removed the underscore.
And curl –version does report
curl --version
curl 7.49.1 (x86_64-pc-msys)
so it should not be necessary anyway.
But ./configure still fails with
checking for path to top of build tree... C:/code/HEAD
configure: Checking for Windows toolchain tarballs...
configure: Extracting Windows toolchain from archives (may take a while)...
File not found - *.tar.xz
Meanwhile
mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download x86_64
completes after 1 second, with no messages of any kind.
What next?!
Thanks
Simon
From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of lonetiger@gmail.com
Sent: 28 June 2016 22:19
To: Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org>; David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>; tamar@zhox.com
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Msys2 64: progress
Hi Simon,
You’re missing an underscore in the command (there’s one between x86 and 64),
It’s pacman -R mingw-w64-x86_64-curl
This is only needed if curl --version reports anything other than x86_64-pc-msys.
After that you need to install the normal msys curl with pacman -S curl
You don’t have to run configure everytime to test either, you can just run
mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download x86_64
from the root and it should just download the packages only if everything is setup correctly.
Also don’t forget to do a pacman -Sy to update the repositories. Couldn’t gather from your email if you did this already.
Kind Regards,
Tamar
From: Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 21:02
To: David Macek; tamar@zhox.com
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Msys2 64: progress
Friends
I want to thank everyone who has responded – very helpful!
Thanks to your help I am making progress
· I re-installed msys64 from scratch, this time following the instructions on the GHC wiki rather than the msys2 page. By doing update-core; then pacman -Su; then pacman -Su again, I got a clean install. Very good!
Getting a shell between each step is tricky.
o The first shell is gotten with mingw64.bat
o After update-core, that file is gone; you have to use msys2_shell.cmd I think
o After pacman -Su we get mingw64.exe, which we can use thereafter.
· My slow-start problem appears to have gone away. I adopted the fix from
you may be hitting a long standing issue some computers have in which the domain controller is being hit for every invocation of commands, causing a slowdown https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/138 , Solution 2 from https://gist.github.com/k-takata/9b8d143f0f3fef5abdab seems to fix it for most people.
I am not absolutely certain that was the problem, but things seem ok now. I also excluded c:/msys64 from my antivirus check.
· Emacs too is now working normally. Hurrah
So that’s all good.
Now I’m stuck on the windows tarballs download thing. I get
configure: Checking for Windows toolchain tarballs...
configure: Extracting Windows toolchain from archives (may take a while)...
File not found - *.tar.xz
I tried both the things described on the wiki:
Pacman -R mingw-w64-x86_64-curl
error: target not found: mingw-w64-x86_64-curl
For the other I did the two mkdir things, and tried ./configure again, but got the same error message as above.
So I’m stuck again, but further forward. Can you advise me?
Thanks!
Simon