Ah -- I understand better now. I'm afraid I've never worked with the source distribution, so I don't have further advice about that. It seems odd, though, that changing rts code would cause problems with wired-in packages. Have you tried just building without any edits and then putting your edits in?
Richard On Mar 27, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Maarten Faddegon <ghc-...@maartenfaddegon.nl> wrote: > Dear Richard, GHC-devs, > > Thank you for your reply. > > I am using the 7.6.3 source distribution. According to > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/QuickStart "perl boot" is not > necessary for source distributions. I did give it a try however (repeating > step 3 and 4 afterwards), but it did not solve my problem. There is no > sync-all script in the source distribution. > > I went with a source distribution rather than checking out from the git > repository because it was recommended on the "Getting the GHC Sources"-page > and because I rather make my changes to an otherwise stable tree. Do you > think this is a bad idea? > > Cheers, > > Maarten Faddegon > > On 27/03/14 11:41, Richard Eisenberg wrote: >> Did you `./sync-all get`? Did you `perl boot`? You may want to check out the >> "Building GHC" section of https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building to >> make sure you've followed all the steps. >> >> I hope this helps, >> Richard >> >> On Mar 27, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Maarten Faddegon <ghc-...@maartenfaddegon.nl> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear GHC-devs, >>> >>> I want to experiment with the RTS of GHC but the compiler I built has >>> problems finding some wired-in packages. How can I include these? >>> >>> This is what I did: >>> >>> * Download ghc-7.6.3 sources. >>> * Make some changes in rts/ >>> * ./configure && make >>> * inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --make my_example.lhs -v >>> >>> And this is the output produced by the last step: >>> >>> ... >>> wired-in package ghc-prim mapped to ghc-prim-0.3.0.0-inplace >>> wired-in package integer-gmp mapped to integer-gmp-0.5.0.0-inplace >>> wired-in package base mapped to base-4.6.0.1-inplace >>> wired-in package rts mapped to builtin_rts >>> wired-in package template-haskell not found. >>> wired-in package dph-seq not found. >>> wired-in package dph-par not found. >>> ... >>> my_example.lhs:88:8: >>> Could not find module `Language.Haskell.TH' >>> Locations searched: >>> Language/Haskell/TH.hs >>> Language/Haskell/TH.lhs >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Maarten Faddegon >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ghc-devs mailing list >>> ghc-devs@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs