Hi Austin,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:59:56AM -0600, austin s wrote:
> 
> With the latest GHC HEAD from darcs, I am running into a validate
> failure that happens very early, preventing the compiler from being
> built, much less any tests done:

What platform are you on?

> % sh validate
> ....
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure
> --with-ghc="/home/a/src/ghc/inplace/bin/dummy-ghc"
> --with-ghc-pkg="/home/a/src/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg"
> --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc" --configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc"
> --flag in-ghc-tree --enable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS="-Wall
> " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="  " -- dist utils/haddock
> Configuring haddock-2.5.0...
> ghc-cabal: ghc-pkg dump failed
> make[1]: *** [utils/haddock/dist/package-data.mk] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> [2] %
> 
> 
> Anybody with an idea of what's happening? Judging from the nature of
> the error I would say that it likely prevents me from building HEAD as
> well, although I have not tried that directly; only validate.

Does running
    inplace/bin/ghc-pkg dump
work?

If so, if you run the '"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure ...' command by
hand, but add -v or -v3 before the --, then it may shed some light.


Thanks
Ian

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