Re: Windows build issues

2008-09-18 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:43:42PM +0100, Mitchell, Neil wrote: > > The problem is that perl on my PATH is the ghc-6.8.3 one I don't think that that is supposed to to work, and I'm a bit confused why it is the first perl in your path because I thought that you said that you added that directory t

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-18 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi Simon, > I object (mildly) to having multiple sets of build > instructions. I object strongly, which is why Claus's instructions with an exact set of instructions with absolutely no choices provided is so great. By "preparing a set of instructions", I really just mean updating the existing in

Re: Windows build issues

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Marlow
Mitchell, Neil wrote: Hi My preference is to use the latest versions, otherwise we'll run into some other bug and the mingw people will (legitimately) tell us to use a newer version, requiring us to upgrade everything anyway. I think Claus disagrees with me on this. Actually, I don't disagr

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi > >My preference is to use the latest versions, otherwise we'll > run into > >some other bug and the mingw people will (legitimately) tell > us to use > >a newer version, requiring us to upgrade everything anyway. I think > >Claus disagrees with me on this. > > Actually, I don't disagree.

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi > > 2) cc1 is in the wrong place, and can't be found. > > isn't this just the fact that Cabal needs to pass -B to gcc? > Does anyone know why we're still haven't this problem? No idea. If you think its now fixed, let me know and I'll try again without the modifications to my PATH. > > 3) o

Re: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Simon Marlow
Mitchell, Neil wrote: | Yes, I've added notes where my experiences differ. Once I've got | everything working, and have identified which steps are going to be | worked around by the build system (i.e. cc1 issues), I'll merge my | changes in. Thank you! Do let me know when you do this. Befo

Re: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Claus Reinke
Before I fix the documentation the GHC team needs to make a decision - do you want to support the latest mingw/cygwin, or advise people to use specific old versions? The old versions work exactly as per the descriptions Claus gave (although there are a few tweaks required for bootstrapping with

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Mitchell, Neil
> | Yes, I've added notes where my experiences differ. Once I've got > | everything working, and have identified which steps are going to be > | worked around by the build system (i.e. cc1 issues), I'll merge my > | changes in. > > Thank you! Do let me know when you do this. Before I fix the

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Yes, I've added notes where my experiences differ. Once I've got | everything working, and have identified which steps are going to be | worked around by the build system (i.e. cc1 issues), I'll merge my | changes in. Thank you! Do let me know when you do this. Simon _

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-17 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi Simon > I'd really really like to end up > a) with a build system that works > b) with Wiki instructions that match it The issues with (a) are fairly minor, so I don't think that will be too much effort. > Concerning the latter, Neil, you could fix the Wiki material > directly couldn't you?

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-16 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
x the Wiki material directly couldn't you? That would be great. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On | Behalf Of Mitchell, Neil | Sent: 16 September 2008 14:44 | To: cvs-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: RE: Windows build issues | | Hi | | I c

RE: Windows build issues

2008-09-16 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi I can fix the error with the patch: hunk ./docs/man/Makefile 26 - perl gen_flags.xsl.pl "$(GHC_COMMANDS)" "$(libdir)" > $@ + ./gen_flags.xsl.pl "$(GHC_COMMANDS)" "$(libdir)" > $@ The problem is that perl on my PATH is the ghc-6.8.3 one, which doesn't work. The shebang line is /usr