Re: Cross-building GHC

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

> There is a new problem.  'make bootstrapping-files' fails:
>
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk bootstrapping-files
>
> [...]
>
> /usr/bin/find: `libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build': No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/find: `libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build': No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/find: `libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build': No such file or directory

So you’re not building with Guix, right?

> mkdir inplace
> mkdir inplace/bin
> mkdir inplace/lib
> "rm" -f inplace/bin/mkdirhier  
> echo '#!/bin/sh'  		 >> inplace/bin/mkdirhier
> cat utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier.sh >> inplace/bin/mkdirhier
> chmod +x inplace/bin/mkdirhier
> Creating includes/ghcautoconf.h...
> Done.
> "rm" -f includes/ghcplatform.h  
> Creating includes/ghcplatform.h...
> Done.
> "inplace/bin/mkdirhier" includes/dist-derivedconstants/build//.
>   CC includes/dist-derivedconstants/build/mkDerivedConstants.o
> "inplace/bin/mkdirhier" includes/dist-derivedconstants/build/tmp//.
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> make[1]: *** [includes/dist-derivedconstants/build/tmp/mkDerivedConstants] Error 2
> make: *** [bootstrapping-files] Error 2

To start with, you could try to find out why /usr/bin/find reports
non-existent directory (above), possibly by checking previous messages
in the build log.  This could be because our cross-compiler somehow
failed before, and that error was silently ignored by GHC’s build
system, for instance.  Or it could be a GHC issue.

HTH,
Ludo’.