windows head build problems: Setup.exe: error reading dist\setup-config;

[Simon Marlow]

Claus Reinke wrote:
>> Claus Reinke wrote:
>>>>>    $ ls compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace*
>>>>>    compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace  compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace.bat
>>>>>    compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace.exe
>>>>
>>>> Ah, this could well be the source of the problem; you should only have
>>>> ghc-inplace.exe. Does removing the others fix it?
>>>
>>> i changed the Makefile to pass the .exe explicitly, which did get the
>>> build rolling again.
>>
>> I think you had leftovers from a previous build, which is why we 
>> recommend doing 'make distclean' before 'darcs-all pull'.  If you do 
>> it after pulling, it might not remove things that were built 
>> previously but not built any more.
> 
> you might recall that it was i who originally proposed this 
> recommendation?-)

Ah :-)  I remember someone pointed it out, but forgot who it was.

> if you'd read the rest of my emails, you'd also notice that i did not 
> only that,

nevertheless, it seems that you had ghc-inplace.bat left over from a 
previous build.  So either you hadn't done 'make distclean' at some point 
in the past, or there was a time when our build system generated 
ghc-inplace.bat but failed to clean it (entirely possible).

> but tried to clean most of distclean's left-overs as well, and that Ian 
> and i
> agreed that a darcs-clean target would be helpful to automate that.

ok; I've been thinking of maintainer-clean as the being the ultimate clean 
option, I wasn't aware that the GNU guidelines for maintainer-clean didn't 
remove configure.  In that case, I'm not sure how useful maintainer-clean 
is for us.

Cheers,
	Simon