Windows build patch

[Claus Reinke]

The ghc 6.8.3 perl probably shouldn't be on your PATH.
If it comes from the building guide step

    - export PATH=/cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.4.1:$PATH
        ; for haddock, alex, happy (*)

please note the comment (it seems there was a note as well
but that got lost over time). As I mentioned earlier, that stems
from times when binary snapshots at least included all the tools
one needed to build ghc. Those times are gone, and that line
should probably be removed when you update the guide
(ghc should refer to the other executables in that location
directly, via relative paths, I think).

Claus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mitchell, Neil" <neil.mitchell.2 at credit-suisse.com>
To: <cvs-ghc at haskell.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Windows build patch


Hi,

My Windows tree still requires one patch to build successfully, which is
attached.

Thanks

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org
> [mailto:cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Neil
> Sent: 16 September 2008 2:44 pm
> To: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
> Subject: RE: Windows build issues
> 
> 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/bin/perl which does work.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil

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