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