Re: Building GHC using cabal repl

Hi Joachim, There are instructions on how to do it, described at https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid/issues/140 One word of warning - GHC runs preprocessors way more than is necessary, which vastly slows down the feedback loop. My hope is a GHC Dev will quickly get frustrated by that and fix it :) Thanks, Neil On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:45 AM, Moritz Angermann wrote:

Hi Joachim,

I believe this might be due to the recent changes that try to keep the source tree pristine instead of generating data in-place. This is partially the result of making ghc relocatable: hadrian#445[1]. It included changes to cabal and ghc and the final bits have been merged in the form of hadrian#531[2] just a few days ago into hadrian. The make based build system does not take advantage of this.

As `Config.hs` is a generated file it no resides in the build folder; as such I believe your changes to be correct.

Does hadrian have a load all of ghc into ghci? I'm afraid I don't think it does yet. I've opened hadrian#551[3] for this.

Cheers, Moritz

-- [1]: https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/pull/445 [2]: https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/pull/531 [3]: https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/issues/551

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On Apr 2, 2018, at 11:50 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

when hacking on most Haskell projects these days, I enjoy having a shell with

ghcid -c 'cabal new-repl -w ghc-8.2'

open. I wondered if I can achieve the same when hacking on GHC. The compiler/ directory has a Cabal file.

It does not work out-of-the box (in a fully built tree):

$ cabal new-repl -w ../inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -fstage2 Build profile: -w ghc-8.5.20180320 -O1 In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details): - ghc-8.5 (lib) (first run) Preprocessing library for ghc-8.5.. cabal: can't find source for Config in backpack, basicTypes, cmm, codeGen, coreSyn, deSugar, ghci, hsSyn, iface, llvmGen, main, nativeGen, parser, prelude, profiling, rename, simplCore, simplStg, specialise, stgSyn, stranal, typecheck, types, utils, vectorise, /home/jojo/build/haskell/ghc/compiler/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.5.20180320/ghc-8.5/build/autogen, /home/jojo/build/haskell/ghc/compiler/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.5.20180320/ghc-8.5/build/global-autogen

cabal: repl failed for ghc-8.5.

It seems that the stage2/build directory is not registered as a source directory:

$ find -name Config.hs ./stage2/build/Config.hs ./stage1/build/Config.hs

But if I extend the section

if flag(stage2) Include-Dirs: stage2

with these lines

Include-Dirs: stage2/build hs-source-dirs: stage2/build ghc-options: -DSTAGE=2 ghc-options: -fobject-code

and call cabal like so, it actually works:

cabal new-repl -w ../inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -fstage2

If I now make hdevtools use this line, then hacking on GHC will have a bit less friction…

(BTW, does Hadrian have a “load all of GHC in GHCi” mode?)

Cheers, Joachim

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