Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: I've a patch which removes DPH from ghc-head, and a merge which removes it from ghc-6.12, and I could successfully build Unfortunately, we can't remove DPH from the boot packages yet. However, as I suggested in my previous

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-17 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 17/03/2010, at 23:40, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: I've a patch which removes DPH from ghc-head, and a merge which removes it from ghc-6.12, and I could successfully build Unfortunately, we can't remove DPH from the boot

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:49:12PM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: DPH is already built by stage 2. You were getting errors from the stage 2 compiler which didn't support ghci. Here is the error message from your original posting: Oh, then I got confused by my different builds here. In this

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-17 Thread Simon Marlow
On 16/03/2010 22:01, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:50:41AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: Does anyone here care about portability? Some time ago (about three years) someone told me that portability is an imporant goal for ghc. Given that you now even need ghci to build ghc, this

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-16 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:50:41AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: Does anyone here care about portability? Some time ago (about three years) someone told me that portability is an imporant goal for ghc. Given that you now even need ghci to build ghc, this portability claim is obviously a lie.

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-16 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 17/03/2010, at 09:01, Matthias Kilian wrote: No, sorry. If I'm seeing unnecessary requirements and all those little hurdles that get in your way trying to get GHC work on a non-first-tier platform, I get really upset. For sure I appreciate your work on the new build system, but what else

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-16 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: On 17/03/2010, at 09:01, Matthias Kilian wrote: No, sorry. If I'm seeing unnecessary requirements and all those little hurdles that get in your way trying to get GHC work on a non-first-tier platform, I get really upset.

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-16 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 17/03/2010, at 12:58, Ian Lynagh wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: On 17/03/2010, at 09:01, Matthias Kilian wrote: No, sorry. If I'm seeing unnecessary requirements and all those little hurdles that get in your way trying to get GHC work on a

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-15 Thread Simon Marlow
On 14/03/2010 21:50, Matthias Kilian wrote: This can't be true: inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -H32m -O-package-name dph-seq-0.4.0 -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/dph/dph-seq/../dph-common -ilibraries/dph/dph-seq/dist-install/build -ilibraries/dph/dph-seq/dist-install/build/autogen

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-15 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:54:02PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: kili: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 6.13.20100314 for x86_64-unknown-openbsd): Cant do annotations without GHCi {59:20-31}ghc-6.13.20100314:SpecConstr.NoSpecConstr{d rap} Please

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-15 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 16/03/2010, at 06:03, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:54:02PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: kili: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 6.13.20100314 for x86_64-unknown-openbsd): Cant do annotations without GHCi

Re: building ghc needs ghci?

2010-03-14 Thread Don Stewart
kili: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 6.13.20100314 for x86_64-unknown-openbsd): Cant do annotations without GHCi {59:20-31}ghc-6.13.20100314:SpecConstr.NoSpecConstr{d rap} Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug