Hi all, These few days I've been having trouble in attempt to use GHC head. I follow the following standard steps to create a tarball: $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/ $ cd ghc $ # optionally, git checkout <branch name> $ ./sync-all --testsuite get $ cp mk/build.mk.sample mk/build.mk $ ### edit BuildFlavour to quick ### $ ./boot $ ./configure $ make -jN # <N> is the number of cores you have. $ make binary-dist and then sandbox-install the tarball by hsenv. However, the installed ghc exhibits the following strange behaviors: (1) several .so files need to be manually copied to /usr/lib . (2) the installed ghc doesn't find any package, even 'base' or 'ghc-prim' Then carefully looking, I found that `make binary-dist` is outputting some error messages,:
cd bindistprep && "/bin/tar" hcf - -T ../bindist-list | bzip2 -c > ../bindistprep/ghc-7.7.20130409-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 /bin/tar: ghc-7.7.20130409/compiler/stage2/doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
The file "./bindist-list" included a filepath that doesn't exist, so that tar command aborted there and every item after that line on the list was excluded from the tarball. So I tested the following trick; $ touch compiler/stage2/doc Then the previous error message didn't show up any more, and the spurious behavior (1) (2) didn't appear any more. I'm wondering if this is an installer bug or I was doing something wrong. I'd appreciate any advice. Best, -- Takayuki MURANUSHI The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/02_mem/h22/muranushi.html