#15538: GHC boot script can't handle Git origin not named origin -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ChaiTRex | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.6.1 Component: Build System | Version: Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Building GHC Unknown/Multiple | failed Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- == Problem I ran the following to get the sources for GHC to build them: {{{ git clone -o ghc --recursive http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git }}} Note especially the `-o ghc` part, which uses the Git origin name `ghc` instead of the default `origin`. When a custom origin name is used, `./boot` fails: {{{ $ ./boot Traceback (most recent call last): File "./boot", line 193, in <module> check_for_url_rewrites() File "./boot", line 29, in check_for_url_rewrites subprocess.check_output('git config remote.origin.url'.split()).find(b'github.com') != -1 and \ File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 626, in check_output **kwargs).stdout File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 708, in run output=stdout, stderr=stderr) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'config', 'remote.origin.url']' returned non-zero exit status 1 $ git config remote.origin.url $ echo $? 1 }}} == Solution To get the URL of the proper origin name, `git config branch.master.remote` can be used to get the origin name to use to get the URL: {{{ $ git config "remote.$( git config branch.master.remote ).url" http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git }}} == Workaround Rename the origin to `origin`: {{{ $ git remote rename "$( git config branch.master.remote )" origin $ ./boot Creating libraries/mtl/ghc.mk Creating libraries/unix/ghc.mk Creating libraries/text/ghc.mk ⋮ }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15538 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler