#14902: GHC HEAD cannot be booted GHC 8.4.1 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: osa1 | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.5 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I get this when I try to boot GHC HEAD with GHC 8.4.1 (using official binaries): {{{ $ make ===--- building phase 0 make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds utils/genprimopcode/ghc.mk:19: utils/genprimopcode/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory utils/deriveConstants/ghc.mk:19: utils/deriveConstants/dist/package- data.mk: No such file or directory utils/genapply/ghc.mk:23: utils/genapply/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/hpc/ghc.mk:3: libraries/hpc/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/binary/ghc.mk:3: libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/text/ghc.mk:3: libraries/text/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/transformers/ghc.mk:3: libraries/transformers/dist-boot/package- data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/mtl/ghc.mk:3: libraries/mtl/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/parsec/ghc.mk:3: libraries/parsec/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/Cabal/Cabal/ghc.mk:3: libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/package- data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/ghc-boot-th/ghc.mk:3: libraries/ghc-boot-th/dist-boot/package- data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/ghc-boot/ghc.mk:3: libraries/ghc-boot/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/template-haskell/ghc.mk:3: libraries/template-haskell/dist-boot /package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/terminfo/ghc.mk:3: libraries/terminfo/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory libraries/ghci/ghc.mk:3: libraries/ghci/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory compiler/ghc.mk:446: compiler/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory utils/hsc2hs/ghc.mk:21: utils/hsc2hs/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory utils/ghc-pkg/ghc.mk:70: utils/ghc-pkg/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory ghc/ghc.mk:111: ghc/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure libraries/binary dist-boot --with- ghc="/home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-8.4.1-bin/bin/ghc" --with-ghc- pkg="/home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-8.4.1-bin/bin/ghc-pkg" --package- db=/home/omer/haskell/ghc/libraries/bootstrapping.conf --disable-library- for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla --enable-library-for-ghci --disable- library-profiling --disable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS="-Wall -fno- stack-protector -Werror=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=inline" --configure- option=LDFLAGS=" " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS=" " --gcc-options="-Wall -fno-stack-protector -Werror=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=inline " --constraint "binary == 0.8.5.1" --constraint "text == 1.2.3.0" --constraint "transformers == 0.5.5.0" --constraint "mtl == 2.2.2" --constraint "parsec == 3.1.13.0" --constraint "Cabal == 2.2.0.0" --constraint "hpc == 0.6.0.3" --constraint "ghc-boot-th == 8.5" --constraint "ghc-boot == 8.5" --constraint "template-haskell == 2.13.0.0" --constraint "ghci == 8.5" --constraint "terminfo == 0.4.1.1" --with-gcc="gcc" --with-ld="ld.gold" --with-ar="ar" --with- alex="/home/omer/.local/bin/alex" --with- happy="/home/omer/.local/bin/happy" Warning: binary.cabal:19:24: unexpected unknown build-type: 'Simple' Simple ghc-cabal: dieVerbatim: user error (ghc-cabal: Failed parsing "./binary.cabal". ) libraries/binary/ghc.mk:3: recipe for target 'libraries/binary/dist-boot /package-data.mk' failed make[1]: *** [libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1 Makefile:122: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 }}} Switching to 8.2.1 works fine. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14902 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler