On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:38:20AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 22 March 2005 09:24, Andrei A. Voropaev wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:06:13AM +0100, Andrei A. Voropaev wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:20:25PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> [...] > >>>>> Did you copy across ghc/includes/DerivedConstants.h and > >>>>> ghc/includes/GHCConstants.h from the target to the host? I think > >>>>> that should fix the above error (the docs do say you have to do > >>>>> this, so perhaps it's something else). > >>>> > >>>> Sure enough I did. As I said, I carefully followed the > >>>> instructions. I repeated the whole process 3 times to make sure I > >>>> didn't forget something :) > >>> > >>> So could you check the values of SIZEOF_VOID_P (in ghcautoconf.h) > >>> and SIZEOF_mp_limb_t (in DerivedConstants.h)? They should both be > >>> 8 in the versions of these files copied from the target. > >> > >> Aha. The values are different. Carefull watching of the > >> DerivedConstants.h showed that it was overwritten when I did 'cd > >> H/ghc && make boot'. And yes, I did touch of all the copied files. > > > > Even worse. This file gets overwritten on subsequent steps as well. > > So, my attempts to copy the correct one from the T machine again and > > again fail. > > Ok, looks like I need to update the instructions. Does this sequence > work: > > - cd H/ghc/includes && make boot > - copy files from T/ghc/includes to H/ghc/includes > - touch the files > - cd H/ghc/includes && make <<-- should do nothing now
Nope. It does not. The last step still recreates DerivedConstants.h -- Minds, like parachutes, function best when open _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
