Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the help!

I have removed the call to bindist and I was indeed missing a similar line in the main GHC.mk

Unfortunately I still get the same error:

  HC [stage 2] driver/ghc-split/dist/build/tmp/ghc-split.exe
/bin/sh: inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe: No such file or directory
driver/ghc-split/ghc.mk:21: recipe for target 'driver/ghc-split/dist/build/tmp/ghc-split.exe' failed
make[1]: *** [driver/ghc-split/dist/build/tmp/ghc-split.exe] Error 127

Though not quite sure why it’s looking in inplace/bin.. 

I was indeed following that page, but haven't been able to consult the wiki today as Trac has been throwing an error all day.
The line I added was:

driver/ghc-split/dist/package-data.mk: compiler/stage2/package-data.mk

Any ideas?

Regards,
Tamar

From: Thomas Miedema
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎July‎ ‎19‎, ‎2015 ‎17‎:‎52
To: Tamar Christina
Cc: GHC


In my ghc.mk I have declared:

$(eval $(call build-prog,driver/ghc-split,dist,0))
$(eval $(call bindist,driver/ghc-split,ghc.mk))

That second line isn't needed. I think you are trying to follow https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Modifying#Addingaprogram, but that information is outdated. Take a look at some ghc.mk files in the utils directory, for example `utils/hpc/ghc.mk`.

Now it's perfectly fine to build this at stage 1 or 2

Use stage1 to build it, or stage2 if you need access to the ghc api.

, but when I change it to either of those building fails telling me that
ghc-stage1 or ghc-stage2 cannot be found...

You are probably missing an entry like the following in the toplevel ghc.mk:

utils/hpc/dist-install/package-data.mk: compiler/stage2/package-data.mk