git clean -dfxq && git submodule foreach git clean -dfxq
That made it work! Thank you.
(Of course I have no idea *what* file 'make maintainer-clean' isn't removing, but maybe we should not worry over-much.)
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
| Sent: 28 January 2020 11:32
| To: Simon Peyton Jones
| Cc: Ben Gamari ; ghc-devs
| Subject: Re: stage2 build fails
|
| I ran into a similar(?) problem a while ago. "make maintainer-clean"
| does not necessarily remove every generated file. See for example
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| Since then I only use
|
| git clean -dfxq && git submodule foreach git clean -dfxq
|
| which worked reliably for me (beware that this removes any untracked
| file). Maybe this helps?
|
| Cheers,
| Stefan
|
| On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:41:33AM +0000, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
| wrote:
| > I did "sh validate --legacy" which uses "make maintainer-clean".
| >
| > I'll try again to double check. Is there any particular file I should
| remove?
| >
| > Simon
| >
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: Ben Gamari
| > | Sent: 27 January 2020 18:59
| > | To: Simon Peyton Jones ; ghc-devs | devs@haskell.org>
| > | Subject: RE: stage2 build fails
| > |
| > | Simon Peyton Jones writes:
| > |
| > | > | Indeed it would be nice to know which compiler you are using to
| > | > | bootstrap. I suspect Sylvain is correct that the alternative can
| be
| > | > | removed but first I would like to understand why this is arising
| only
| > | > | now.
| > | >
| > | > I'm using 8.6.4 as my bootstrap compiler. But this message occurs
| only
| > | when compiling the *stage2* compiler with the *stage1* compiler. At
| that
| > | moment the bootstrap compiler is irrelevant.
| > | >
| > | > It's as if the build system doesn't know that the stage1 compiler
| is >=
| > | 8.10
| > | >
| > | Hmm, interesting. Has this tree been cleaned in the last month or
| two?
| > | I suspect that this may have something to do with the changes to the
| > | GHC_STAGE macro that were merged a while back (perhaps a stale header
| > | file?).
| > |
| > | Cheers,
| > |
| > | - Ben
| >
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