
Gurgah. GHC is broken on my windows laptop. See below. Anyone have any ideas? Frustrating. Oddly the symbol is defined in the .exe bash$ nm inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe | grep stg_upd_frame 02c248e0 T _stg_upd_frame_info This is admittedly on a branch that I have modified; but I have only modified stuff in the front end, nothing in the RTS etc. I suppose I will try to build a unmodified HEAD too. can anyone help? Thanks! Simon bash$ c:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive GHCi, version 7.11.20151026: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghc-stage2.exe: unable to load package `ghc-prim-0.4.0.0' ghc-stage2.exe: C:\code\HEAD\libraries\ghc-prim\dist-install\build\HSghc-prim-0.4.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_stg_upd_frame_info' HEAD $

It happens with unmodified HEAD too. Sigh. Can anyone help? Simon From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton Jones Sent: 26 October 2015 21:19 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Can't build on Windows Gurgah. GHC is broken on my windows laptop. See below. Anyone have any ideas? Frustrating. Oddly the symbol is defined in the .exe bash$ nm inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe | grep stg_upd_frame 02c248e0 T _stg_upd_frame_info This is admittedly on a branch that I have modified; but I have only modified stuff in the front end, nothing in the RTS etc. I suppose I will try to build a unmodified HEAD too. can anyone help? Thanks! Simon bash$ c:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive GHCi, version 7.11.20151026: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghc-stage2.exe: unable to load package `ghc-prim-0.4.0.0' ghc-stage2.exe: C:\code\HEAD\libraries\ghc-prim\dist-install\build\HSghc-prim-0.4.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_stg_upd_frame_info' HEAD $

(Resending to list properly)
Hrm, I can't see anything off hand in the past few weeks that would
have caused this at a glance.
Can you try bisecting it perhaps? You can probably do something like:
$ git bisect start
$ git bisect bad
$ git bisect good dcc342870b4d8a739ccbed3ae26e84dcc3579914
$ git bisect run ./validate
This will probably take a while, though.
The commit 'dcc342870b4d8a739ccbed3ae26e84dcc3579914' was chosen
randomly, however. Any idea when this started happening? If it's the
past few weeks, the above might work
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
Gurgah. GHC is broken on my windows laptop. See below. Anyone have any ideas? Frustrating.
Oddly the symbol is defined in the .exe
bash$ nm inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe | grep stg_upd_frame
02c248e0 T _stg_upd_frame_info
This is admittedly on a branch that I have modified; but I have only modified stuff in the front end, nothing in the RTS etc. I suppose I will try to build a unmodified HEAD too.
can anyone help? Thanks!
Simon
bash$ c:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive
GHCi, version 7.11.20151026: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
ghc-stage2.exe: unable to load package `ghc-prim-0.4.0.0'
ghc-stage2.exe: C:\code\HEAD\libraries\ghc-prim\dist-install\build\HSghc-prim-0.4.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_stg_upd_frame_info'
HEAD $
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But don't our windows buildbots do this for us? Surely! That's what they are for.
Me bisecting on my little laptop is not a very happy situation. Don't we have better technology?
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: mad.one@gmail.com [mailto:mad.one@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Austin
| Seipp
| Sent: 26 October 2015 23:37
| To: Simon Peyton Jones
| Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Can't build on Windows
|
| (Resending to list properly)
|
| Hrm, I can't see anything off hand in the past few weeks that would
| have caused this at a glance.
|
| Can you try bisecting it perhaps? You can probably do something like:
|
| $ git bisect start
| $ git bisect bad
| $ git bisect good dcc342870b4d8a739ccbed3ae26e84dcc3579914
| $ git bisect run ./validate
|
| This will probably take a while, though.
|
| The commit 'dcc342870b4d8a739ccbed3ae26e84dcc3579914' was chosen
| randomly, however. Any idea when this started happening? If it's the
| past few weeks, the above might work
|
| On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
|

I can not reproduce this on 64bit
Windows, a9c93bdd8b027d6de09a3eada7721e7fd2d3e050 builds succesfully with
flavour devel2.
* Which build flavour are you using? Any other mk/build.mk settings?
* 32bit or 64bit?
* Output of `git status` (i.e. did you 'git submodule update'? In case that
fixes it, I suggest you use git pullall
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git/Submodules#gitp...
for
all your pulling needs)
* Try `make maintainer-clean`.
* In case you use llvm, note that HEAD needs llvm-3.7 now.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
Gurgah. GHC is broken on my windows laptop. See below. Anyone have any ideas? Frustrating.
Oddly the symbol is defined in the .exe
bash$ nm inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe | grep stg_upd_frame
02c248e0 T _stg_upd_frame_info
This is admittedly on a branch that I have modified; but I have only modified stuff in the front end, nothing in the RTS etc. I suppose I will try to build a unmodified HEAD too.
can anyone help? Thanks!
Simon
bash$ c:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive
GHCi, version 7.11.20151026: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
ghc-stage2.exe: unable to load package `ghc-prim-0.4.0.0'
ghc-stage2.exe: C:\code\HEAD\libraries\ghc-prim\dist-install\build\HSghc-prim-0.4.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_stg_upd_frame_info'
HEAD $
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Same here, can't reproduce on 64bit Windows 10. Edward Excerpts from Thomas Miedema's message of 2015-10-26 17:54:35 -0700:
I can not reproduce this on 64bit Windows, a9c93bdd8b027d6de09a3eada7721e7fd2d3e050 builds succesfully with flavour devel2.
* Which build flavour are you using? Any other mk/build.mk settings? * 32bit or 64bit? * Output of `git status` (i.e. did you 'git submodule update'? In case that fixes it, I suggest you use git pullall https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git/Submodules#gitp... for all your pulling needs) * Try `make maintainer-clean`. * In case you use llvm, note that HEAD needs llvm-3.7 now.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
wrote: Gurgah. GHC is broken on my windows laptop. See below. Anyone have any ideas? Frustrating.
Oddly the symbol is defined in the .exe
bash$ nm inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe | grep stg_upd_frame
02c248e0 T _stg_upd_frame_info
This is admittedly on a branch that I have modified; but I have only modified stuff in the front end, nothing in the RTS etc. I suppose I will try to build a unmodified HEAD too.
can anyone help? Thanks!
Simon
bash$ c:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive
GHCi, version 7.11.20151026: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
ghc-stage2.exe: unable to load package `ghc-prim-0.4.0.0'
ghc-stage2.exe: C:\code\HEAD\libraries\ghc-prim\dist-install\build\HSghc-prim-0.4.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_stg_upd_frame_info'
HEAD $
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· I was using “sh validate”. Incidentally, does that still use validate.mk, are-validating.mk etc? Or is all that gone now, in which case if I want to modify the validate settings what do I do?
· 32 vs 64 bit? How do I find out? I’m on a 64-bit processor, but for all I know I’m building GHC with 32 bit stuff. How would I tell?
· `git submodule update’ appeared not to do anything
· I’m on a9c93b as well, same as you
I’ll try ‘make maintainer-clean’.
Am I using LLVM? I don’t know. I’m just saying ‘sh validate’. How would I install LLVM? The Windows preparation page is silent on that. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows
Incidentally, the stage2 compiler can build statically-linked binaries; it’s just
ghc-stage2 –interactive
that immediately fails with the error below.
How could I investigate the actual error more directly? Trying random things around the side is good, but so is directly investigating the cause, if only I knew how.
Thanks!
Simon
From: Thomas Miedema [mailto:thomasmiedema@gmail.com]
Sent: 27 October 2015 00:55
To: Simon Peyton Jones
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Re: Can't build on Windows
I can not reproduce this on 64bit Windows, a9c93bdd8b027d6de09a3eada7721e7fd2d3e050 builds succesfully with flavour devel2.
* Which build flavour are you using? Any other mk/build.mkhttps://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fbuild.mk&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cc86c89f598f14d618fe808d2de692fc8%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=p1UQjXj6nQgS8jCzrn2iYDTXQfMWxDWu7zEyn6wTUsM%3d settings?
* 32bit or 64bit?
* Output of `git status` (i.e. did you 'git submodule update'? In case that fixes it, I suggest you use git pullallhttps://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git/Submodules#gitp... for all your pulling needs)
* Try `make maintainer-clean`.
* In case you use llvm, note that HEAD needs llvm-3.7 now.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
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