Sigbjorn Finne writes:
>
> my guess is that the Makefile dependencies aren't generated properly,
> try doing 'make depend' in ghc/compiler and see if that fails to
> complete properly for some reason.
>
I tried, but it seems to complete successfully. Nevertheless, later
make all fails with the same message.
Probably the dependencies generated by make boot (or make depend, for
that matter) _are_ circular (citing from ghc/compiler/.depend):
utils/FastString.o : basicTypes/Unique.hi
basicTypes/Unique.o : utils/Pretty.hi
utils/Pretty.o : utils/FastString.hi
...the circle closes :-(
> BTW, mailing glasgow-haskell-bugs is probably a good idea with
> problems like these; I'm happy to help out, but I'm reading
> my e-mail infrequently at the moment.
>
> Marcin Benke writes:
> > Thanks for this hint. I have downloaded binary version of 2.07 and
> > tried again to recompile 2.07 with itself. However, after
> >
> > configure
> > make boot
> >
> > make all fails like this:
> >
> > make[2]: Circular utils/Argv.o <- utils/FastString.hi dependency dropped.
> > ghc-2.07 -cpp -fglasgow-exts -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser
>-iutils:basicTypes:types:hsSyn:prelude:rename:typecheck:deSugar:coreSyn:specialise:simplCore:stranal:stgSyn:simplStg:codeGen:absCSyn:main:reader:profiling:parser:nativeGen
> -recomp -DOMIT_DEFORESTER -fvia-C -c utils/Argv.lhs -o utils/Argv.o -osuf o
> >
> > utils/Argv.lhs:15: Could not find valid interface file `FastString'
> >
> > Compilation had errors
> > make[2]: *** [utils/Argv.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
Regards,
Marcin Benke
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