I've brought back the old section about fingerprint.py for 7.8.* to the GettingTheSources wiki page, updated it, to the best of my knowledge, and added the info from the email below. Please correct the section if I mixed up anything. I think, for as long as 7.8.* is in widespread use, the section has to stay, even though it's irrelevant for 7.10.
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#Trackingthefullrepositorystatepre-March2014e.g.the7.8.branches On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Gergo, > > On 2014-11-02 at 14:29:06 +0100, Dr. ERDI Gergo 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? > > Starting with GHC 7.8.x, fingerprints are written into > annotated & gpg-signed release tags: > > http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/tag/refs/tags/ghc-7.8.3-release > > That way you're able to restore via the fingerprint for a given release > via: > > ./utils/fingerprint/fingerprint.py restore -f <(git show ghc-7.8.3-release | > grep -F '|') > > I'm just surprised I couldn't find that described anywhere in the wiki, > I was sure it was written down somewhere... > > hth, > hvr > _______________________________________________ > 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
