On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:11:20PM -0400, Dubiousjim wrote:

However, this fails at the following point:

"" -fno-stack-protector -DNO_REGS -DUSE_MINIINTERPRETER -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=704 -Iincludes -DNO_REGS -DUSE_MINIINTERPRETER -Iincludes -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header -Irts -DNOSMP -c includes/mkDerivedConstants.c -o includes/dist-derivedconstants/build/mkDerivedConstants.o /bin/sh: : Permission denied make[1]: *** [includes/dist-derivedconstants/build/mkDerivedConstants.o] Error 127 make: *** [bootstrapping-files] Error 2

I don't know if it's a variable that's supposed to point to $CC that's coming up "", or one that's supposed to point to ghc. I'm guessing the latter. I can't proceed with the porting instructions at this point because includes/dist-derivedconstants is empty (just an empty build dir), and includes/dist-ghcconstants doesn't exist yet.

Any advice on how to proceed further using either of the strategies I described (cross-compiling, or bootstrapping using using unregisterised intermediate C files), would be welcomed.

I got past that point by re-entering the failing command line by hand, and changing the leading "" to "gcc". I had to do that a couple of times (four). Then I can proceed to copy some include files to the host, run make on the host, make a tarball of various generated files. (One problem here: the instructions say to add compiler/main/Config.hs to the tarball, but that doesn't exist in this sourcetree. I'm guessing they meant compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs.) Then we untar that tarball back on the target machine, and proceed with the instructions. I come across a bunch more of the weird commands starting with "". A few of them have the form: "" configure ... At first I thought that was trying to be "sh configure ..." but the configure script complains that it doesn't recognize all the passed flags. Perhaps it should be not the configure script in the topmost directory, but one in a subdirectory? In any case, by running these commands: $ touch compiler/stage1/package-data.mk $ touch ghc/stage1/package-data.mk I can avoid those invocations. Not sure if there is something here I should be building but am missing. There are a lot more commands that make tries to run that start with "" and which seem to be trying to invoke gcc. (Plenty of times make *does* invoke "/usr/bin/gcc", as it ought to. But there are a bunch of times that it misses, and instead says "". Weird.) By correcting these all to "gcc", I'm able to get a lot further in the process. Here's where I'm stuck now. The instructions at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting say to run these from the sourcetree on the target system: $ make all_ghc_stage2 2>&1 | tee c.log $ make inplace/bin/ghc-pkg 2>&1 | tee gp.log $ make inplace/lib/unlit NOTE: building inplace/bin/ghc-pkg currently fails. This has to be fixed. Here's how far I've gotten, with all my fiddling: $ make all_ghc_stage2 ===--- building final phase make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final all_ghc_stage2 find: libraries/haskell98/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell98/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell2010/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell2010/dist-install/build: No such file or directory "cp" -p includes/dist-ghcconstants/build/tmp/mkGHCConstants inplace/bin/mkGHCConstants make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-install/build/Paths_Cabal.o', needed by `libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-install/build/libHSCabal-1.14.0.a'. Stop. make: *** [all_ghc_stage2] Error 2 $ make inplace/bin/ghc-pkg ===--- building final phase make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final inplace/bin/ghc-pkg find: libraries/haskell98/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell98/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell2010/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell2010/dist-install/build: No such file or directory make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-install/build/Paths_Cabal.o', needed by `libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-install/build/libHSCabal-1.14.0.a'. Stop. make: *** [inplace/bin/ghc-pkg] Error 2 $ make inplace/lib/unlit ===--- building final phase make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final inplace/lib/unlit find: libraries/haskell98/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell98/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell2010/dist-install/build: No such file or directory find: libraries/haskell2010/dist-install/build: No such file or directory "cp" -p utils/unlit/dist/build/tmp/unlit inplace/lib/unlit Looks like until I build Paths_Cabal.o (how?), I'm still not going to get a working stage2 ghc or a ghc-pkg. As before, any advice would be very welcome. -- dubiousjim@gmail.com