Hi Ian, On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:56:35AM -0400, Gregory Wright wrote:
Is this a problem with the HEAD branch or do I need a development version of cabal from the darcs repository to build the latest ghc?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. You need the latest darcs Cabal in libraries/Cabal in your GHC tree, and if this is a tree that you have previously built then you may also need to first remove libraries/stamp/bootstrapping.Cabal. However, you don't need the latest Cabal registered with the GHC that you are building /with/.
I started by deleting my old directory and doing a fresh get from the darcs repository so there was nothing left over from a previous build. It looks as if something is broken then. For example, "--configure-option=-O2" is showing up in the command line of gcc when one of the test programs is built by the configure script in libraries/base. I assume that this should just have been "- O2". The configure script fails because gcc barfs on the unrecognized option. So no new dependencies have been introduced in the HEAD build as I understand it. Anyone else have problems building HEAD in the last couple of days. I know it's not just me; it was reported to me by another person using macports to build HEAD. Best Wishes, Greg