On 17 September 2005 22:05, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:

I tried it again today. One of my problems was related to gmake version. The configure script should warn, if gmake is older than 3.80 (I had 3.78).

I'm using 3.79.1. I do vaguely remember a problem with older versions of gmake - what goes wrong for you?

The building of the .hc bundle fails wirth the following messages:

... tar czf ghc-6.4.1-x86_64-unknown-freebsd-hc.tar.gz `cat hc-files-to-go` tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/PrimOps.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/StgStartup.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/StgStdThunks.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/Updates.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/Apply.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/Exception.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/HeapStackCheck.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/StgMiscClosures.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/libraries/haskell-src/Language/Haskell/Parser.hs: Cannot stat: No such file or directory gmake: *** [hc-file-bundle] Fehler 1

Yes, you do actually need to generate these .hc files on the host system. What happened to the build in ghc/rts - could you post the error message? Possibly a 'make -k' in ghc/rts will be enough to get these files.

I tried to go back to ghc/rts to build more files following the ipattern of the last steps before, but this destroys genapply.

Don't quite understand this - could you elaborate?

Further, there are some hsc.c files of length 0 like: ~/Haskell/fptools-i386amd64/ghc-6.4.1 0$ ls -l libraries/base/System/*hsc.c -rw-r--r-- 1 wb ifado 0 17 Sep 21:31 libraries/base/System/CPUTime_hsc.c -rw-r--r-- 1 wb ifado 0 17 Sep 21:31 libraries/base/System/Time_hsc.c

This is correct (the C compiler should generate an empty object file when compiling them). It was easier to avoid the special case in the build system when the _hsc.c file is empty.

The building process on the target system fails with messages that there is no rule to build those files. Also, I needed to have happy and alex on the target system, because make boot fails without them (catch 22).

When things are working properly, you don't need Happy or Alex on the target system. I suspect things have gone wrong earlier.

A final glitch is that (at least, my) FreeBSD-amd64-6.0 gcc does not include -I/usr/local/include and -L/usr/local/lib in the search path. So libgmp is not found.

Ok. You can use the libgmp in the tree (this should happen automatically), or you can add the -I/-L flags to the relevant places. This is something we don't handle very well right now, though. Cheers, Simon