| Anyways the workaround, other than a big `git clean -fdx`, is a removing
| these three files
|
| * includes/dist/build/settings,
| * lib/settings,
| * settings
|
| Then make will regenerate them.
Excellent, that works.
| I would be happy to change the cleaning
| stuff to actually fix the issue, but I am not sure how.
It may not matter. We don't want to spend lots of time on the old build system. Is this a once-only thing? I.e. once done will never happen again? Or might it happen repeatedly?
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: John Ericson
| Sent: 28 May 2019 23:33
| To: Ben Gamari
| Cc: Simon Peyton Jones ; GHC developers
| Subject: Re: Clean build fails with make
|
| This is the same issue as before; and I don't know how the cleaning works.
| The good thing is that I think I am done adding things to that. (Perhaps
| some should be removed, but that won't cause these issues.)
|
| Anyways the workaround, other than a big `git clean -fdx`, is a removing
| these three files
|
| * includes/dist/build/settings,
| * lib/settings,
| * settings
|
| Then make will regenerate them. I would be happy to change the cleaning
| stuff to actually fix the issue, but I am not sure how.
|
| Sorry for more disruption,
|
| John
|
| On Tue, May 28, 2019, at 5:56 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
| > Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs writes:
| >
| > > A 'sh validate` in a clean tree fails as below.
| > > Is that expected? That is, is validate dead?
| > > If so let's change the shell script to say "game over, just use
| > > Hadrian".
| > > Simon
| >
| > John, it looks like this is more fallout from the recent platform
| > changes. Any thoughts?
| >
| > Cheers,
| >
| > - Ben
| >
| > > "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" check libraries/ghc-prim
| > >
| > > "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure libraries/ghc-prim dist-install
| > > --with-ghc="/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"
| > > --with-ghc-pkg="/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg"
| > > --disable-library-for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla
| > > --enable-library-for-ghci --disable-library-profiling --enable-shared
| --configure-option=CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-
| error=inline" --configure-option=LDFLAGS=" " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="
| > > " --gcc-options="-Wall -Werror=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-
| error=inline " --with-gcc="gcc"
| > > --with-ld="ld.gold" --with-ar="ar" --with-alex="/usr/bin/alex" --with-
| happy="/usr/bin/happy"
| > >
| > > Configuring ghc-prim-0.6.1...
| > >
| > > ghc-cabal: '/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1' exited
| > > with an
| > >
| > > error:
| > >
| > > No entry for "target platform string" in
| > >
| > > "/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/lib/settings"
| > >
| > > libraries/ghc-prim/ghc.mk:4: recipe for target
| > > 'libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/package-data.mk' failed
| > >
| > > make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error
| > > 1
| > >
| > > Makefile:123: recipe for target 'all' failed
| > >
| > > make: *** [all] Error 2
| >
| >
| > *Attachments:*
| > * signature.asc
