Hi! The check for Windows in sync-all is failing (line 790). On a mingw/msys system $OSNAME contains 'msys' and not MSWin32 or Cygwin that it is checking for.
Niklas 2013/8/23 Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> > I’ve got a new Windows laptop, and have being having a torrid time > getting GHC to build on it.**** > > ** ** > > **1. **Build falls over with **** > > checking for gcc... c:/code/HEAD/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe**** > > checking whether the C compiler works... no**** > > configure: error: in `/c/code/HEAD':**** > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables**** > > Turns out that an earlier error was**** > > configure: Making in-tree mingw tree**** > > tar (child): ../../ghc-tarballs/mingw/binutils*.tar.lzma: Cannot open: No > such file or directory**** > > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now**** > > tar: Child returned status 2**** > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now**** > > ./configure: line 4050: inplace/mingw/bin/realgcc.exe: No such file or > directory**** > > configure: In-tree mingw tree created**** > > configure: Making in-tree perl tree**** > > BUT this error was not fatal, so the build went on (notwithstanding the > red message above), leading to a MUCH more obscure error later.**** > > ** ** > > **2. **Why wasn’t ghc-tarballs there? Oh, apparently you have to > say **** > > sync-all –windows get**** > > That’s really hard for a naïve user to work out. Can’t we either always > get it, or work out that we are on windows?**** > > ** ** > > **3. **I carefully installed mingw/msys as described on > http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started > I used mingw-set-inst, which launches a GUI for a package installer. All > seems well. I update my path. But then**** > > Can't locate Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /mingw/share/autoco**** > > nf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/msys**** > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_**** > > perl/5.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) a**** > > t /c/Programme/MinGW/bin/autoreconf-2.68 line 40.**** > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /c/Programme/MinGW/bin/autoreconf-2.68 line**** > > 40.**** > > After a long struggle I found that I had missed a crucial thing. With the > new autoconf tools, *it’s essential that c:/mingw be mounted as /mingw*, > because /mingw is hard-coded into autoconf perl scripts. > http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started does say (deep in the middle) > to edit c:/mingw/msys/1.0/etc/fstab with a text editor, but that appeared > to have no effect for me. Saying “mount c:/mingw /mingw” did work. I > have no idea why. **** > > ** ** > > What is horrible is how uninformative the error message is.**** > > ** ** > > I guess we should update the Windows build instructions.**** > > ** ** > > I still don’t know if I’ve bottomed out here because I can’t find > Happy/Alex in the Haskell platform. Sigh.**** > > Simon**** > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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