I've brought back the old section about fingerprint.py for 7.8.*
to the GettingTheSources wiki page, updated it, to the best
of my knowledge, and added the info from the email below.
Please correct the section if I mixed up anything. I think,
for as long as 7.8.* is in widespread use, the section has to stay,
even though it's irrelevant for 7.10.
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#Trackingthe...
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
Hello Gergo,
On 2014-11-02 at 14:29:06 +0100, Dr. ERDI Gergo wrote:
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, Dr. ERDI Gergo wrote:
On a completely clean clone, I've checked out the tag ghc-7.8.3-release, ran sync-all get, boot, and configure, but the build fails on haskell98. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
I've worked around this by manually checking out the 'ghc-7.8' branch of various submodules until I got it to work (I think the ones I needed to change were dph, haskell98, haskell2010, template-haskell, and haddock, but I'm not sure). It seems the `ghc-7.8.3-release` tag is in a horrible shape in terms of reproducable building of imported repos. Is anyone looking into fixing this?
Starting with GHC 7.8.x, fingerprints are written into annotated & gpg-signed release tags:
http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/tag/refs/tags/ghc-7.8.3-release
That way you're able to restore via the fingerprint for a given release via:
./utils/fingerprint/fingerprint.py restore -f <(git show ghc-7.8.3-release | grep -F '|')
I'm just surprised I couldn't find that described anywhere in the wiki, I was sure it was written down somewhere...
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