Re: An idea for improving workflow

2013-03-26 Thread Jan Stolarek
Daniel, I'm also a bit ignorant as to why there are two different repos. Indeed putting the testsuite into the same repo as GHC seems to be the best option, but I'm assuming that since the GHC team has placed these projects into separate repos there must be a Good Reason to do so. Or perhaps

Stability of Uniques

2013-03-26 Thread Edsko de Vries
Hi all, Consider the very simple test module Test2 where f = True When walking the AST after renaming I see that f has unique 1912603236 and True has unique 905969694. However, when walking the typechecked AST f seems to have unique 1627390565 instead. Should I expect that the unique

Could not find 'Prelude'

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Eisenberg
On HEAD, commit b9d53..., a freshly built ghc-stage2 can't find its Prelude: rae:22:06:54 ~/temp ~/Documents/ghc-baseline/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 Scratch.hs Scratch.hs:1:1: Could not find module ‛Prelude’ There are files missing in the ‛base’ package, try running 'ghc-pkg

Re: Could not find 'Prelude'

2013-03-26 Thread Richard Eisenberg
Yep. That change did it. My Makefile-fu isn't quite strong enough to feel comfortable changing the build process, but perhaps someone should take a look at this, because I doubt I'm the only one who would have the problem. Thanks, Edward! Richard On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:48 PM, Edward Z. Yang

Re: Could not find 'Prelude'

2013-03-26 Thread Edward Z. Yang
I mentioned it earlier, but Ian and I weren't able to figure out what had went wrong... Edward Excerpts from Richard Eisenberg's message of Tue Mar 26 20:30:53 -0700 2013: Yep. That change did it. My Makefile-fu isn't quite strong enough to feel comfortable changing the build process, but

Re: adding -ticky to, say, WAY_debug_HC_OPTS?

2013-03-26 Thread Simon Marlow
On 25/03/13 10:35, Nicolas Frisby wrote: (I admit that I remain intimidated by the build system.) I'm renabling some ticky counter bumps from within the RTS. The most direct path I see to this involves adding -ticky to makefile variables such as WAY_debug_HC_OPTS. (See the APPENDIX for why I