S.D.Mechveliani writes:
> I am trying to build ghc-2.04 on linux, i486 ...
>
> using ghc-0.29 installed earlier. The questions arise.
>
Hi, sorry about the delay..
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> I downloaded ghc-2.04-src-pl2.tar.gz, unzipped-untarred it.
>
> Then no *patches* have to be applied?
That's right, no patches beyond this have been made available.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> config.mk.in contains GhcProjectPatchLevel =0
>
> is this right?
Not really, but it is not used anywhere, AFAIK.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> config.mk.in contains mkdependHS_1_2 = mkdependHS-1.2
>
> But where is defined mkdependHS-1.2 ?
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
It's the 0.29 one (as Alex answered).
> Many lines in config.mk.in contain @..@ values. Say,
>
The config.mk.in is a template from which the configure script will
substitute appropriate values between the @..@s. See the installation
guide for more details of the new Makefile setup.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> I made a link copy tree ..../myfptools-linux (== $(TOP))
> Then commanded
> cd $(TOP); ./configure; make boot
>
> `make boot' reports
>
> info.c:69: sgtty.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/include/pwd.h:30,
> from makeinfo.c:79:
>
> among its messages. Will this do?
Not very nice, but I would ignore failures in literate/info-utils with
2,04, these are peripheral tools at best. (meanwhile, we'll dig up an
updated version of info.c and include it in the next release)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Then commanded make all
>
> It works for several hours, reports many good messages, and also
> this one (for many modules):
> Warning: InitTime not found in stats file
> Warning: InitElapsed not found in stats file
>
Pls ignore these.
> Then it comes
>
> ghc/PrelBase.lhs:10:9: parse error on input: Segmentation fault
> caught, address = 75640072
> make[2]: *** [ghc/PrelBase.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>
Ouch..could you send the output from compiling PrelBase.o, i.e., what
does the following report
make ghc/PrelBase.o EXTRA_HC_OPTS='-v -dshow-rn-trace'
Thanks,
--Sigbjorn
