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| Sent: 01 December 2014 08:37
| To: Simon Peyton Jones
| Subject: Re: Windows build broken again: urgent
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| On 2014-12-01 at 09:31:51 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
| Alas. Alack. The Windows build is broken again.
| This time it's pretty fundamental: the stage2 compiler seg-faults
Hello Simon,
On 2014-12-01 at 09:38:37 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
| Just a hunch... could it have been broken by one of the recent linker-
| related patches since Nov 24th?
That seems very plausible, yes. But still there's the question of
what to do about it.
a) Empirically: Try
In general I think a good course of action when this happens is:
* Use git bisect to find the offending commit. This works now because we
moved to submodules.
* Revert the commit.
* Push the patch to master and notify the author.
This style of early rollback will become more important as we grow
To: Herbert Valerio Riedel
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org; Simon Marlow; Simon Peyton Jones
Subject: Re: Windows build broken again: urgent
In general I think a good course of action when this happens is:
* Use git bisect to find the offending commit. This works now because we moved
to submodules
it
for me.
Herbert suggested some commits to revert. I’ll try that first
*From:* Johan Tibell [mailto:johan.tib...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 01 December 2014 09:45
*To:* Herbert Valerio Riedel
*Cc:* ghc-devs@haskell.org; Simon Marlow; Simon Peyton Jones
*Subject:* Re: Windows build broken again
