#5579: alex and happy found during ./configure not used
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Reporter: kolmodin | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Build System
Version: 7.3 | Keywords: make alex happy
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Os: Linux | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Building GHC failed
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This is with HEAD as of 2011-10-24.
0d6529f669104b6f22049d456a9600d949a09018
Looks like the alex and happy executables found during ./configure are not
used when compiling libraries in stage 1.
{{{
kolmodin@kolmodin:~/code/ghc$ time PATH=/home/kolmodin/.cabal/bin:$PATH
./configure --prefix=/home/kolmodin/usr --with-ghc=/usr/bin/ghc
...
[snip]
...
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Configure completed successfully.
Building GHC version : 7.3.20111024
Build platform : x86_64-unknown-linux
Host platform : x86_64-unknown-linux
Target platform : x86_64-unknown-linux
Bootstrapping using : /usr/bin/ghc
which is version : 6.12.1
Using GCC : /usr/bin/gcc
which is version : 4.4.3
ld : /usr/bin/ld
Happy : /home/kolmodin/.cabal/bin/happy (1.18.6)
Alex : /home/kolmodin/.cabal/bin/alex (3.0.1)
Python : /usr/bin/python
Perl : /usr/bin/perl
dblatex :
xsltproc : /usr/bin/xsltproc
HsColour was not found; documentation will not contain source links
Building DocBook HTML documentation : NO
Building DocBook PS documentation : NO
Building DocBook PDF documentation : NO
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}}}
When building;
{{{
kolmodin@kolmodin:~/code/ghc$ make
===--- building phase 0
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'.
===--- building phase 1
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure --with-
ghc="/home/kolmodin/code/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" --with-ghc-
pkg="/home/kolmodin/code/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg" --flag in-ghc-tree
--enable-library-profiling --enable-shared --enable-library-for-ghci
--configure-option=CFLAGS=" -fno-stack-protector " --configure-
option=LDFLAGS=" " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS=" " --with-
gcc="/usr/bin/gcc" --configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc" --with-
ar="/usr/bin/ar" --with-ranlib="true" -- dist utils/haddock
Configuring haddock-2.9.4...
ghc-cabal: The program alex version >=2.3 is required but the version
found at
/usr/bin/alex is version 2.2
make[1]: *** [utils/haddock/dist/package-data.mk] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
}}}
Note that it tried to use {{{/usr/bin/alex}}} while ./configure had found
{{{/home/kolmodin/.cabal/bin/alex}}}.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5579>
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