The checkout clone process for 7.8.3 is very different from head. What exact commands where you trying to do for the initial clone?
I would use Git clone -b ghc-7.8.3 ghcUrl ; ./sync-all get I think. Point being the clone process is different. On Sunday, November 2, 2014, Dr. ERDI Gergo <ge...@erdi.hu> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, Dr. ERDI Gergo wrote: > > On a completely clean clone, I've checked out the tag ghc-7.8.3-release, >> ran sync-all get, boot, and configure, but the build fails on haskell98. >> Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? >> > > I've worked around this by manually checking out the 'ghc-7.8' branch of > various submodules until I got it to work (I think the ones I needed to > change were dph, haskell98, haskell2010, template-haskell, and haddock, but > I'm not sure). It seems the `ghc-7.8.3-release` tag is in a horrible shape > in terms of reproducable building of imported repos. Is anyone looking into > fixing this? > > Bye, > Gergo > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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