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

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:08:05PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
> >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.
> 
> btw, Ian pointed out that compiler/stage1, being boring, won't even 
> appear in 'darcs whatsnew -l', but his suggestion to add --boring doesn't 
> work for me. firstly, darcs gets really memory-hungry when i add that flag, 
> and secondly, it gives less, rather than more output. am i doing anything 
> wrong, or is darcs at fault?

Looks like a darcs bug to me.

Incidentally, I've just realised that if it did work then it would also
tell you that you have added all the files in all the libraries,
testsuite, etc.

> the libraries/Makefile diff is my ghc-inplace.exe change, but most of 
> the other files should really have disappeared after distclean, right?

Yup; I have ambitions to go through making sure everything gets cleaned
at some point before the release.


Thanks
Ian