Cannot make ghc: Failed to load interface for GHC.Base

[Dan Rosén]

No! Sorry for the confusion Simon, it is HEAD _PLUS_ my own commit that
triggers these errors. Oh, and I should add that 'my own commit' is only in
my own development repository. So, no worries!

/Dan


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  Wait.. are you saying that with HEAD several test suite programs fail as
> you describe below?  If so, which?
>
> Simion****
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> *From:* ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Dan
> Rosén
> *Sent:* 30 August 2013 14:26
> *To:* David Luposchainsky
> *Cc:* ghc-devs at haskell.org
> *Subject:* Re: Cannot make ghc: Failed to load interface for GHC.Base****
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> Closed, but a note to interested readers:
>
> killy9999 on #ghc realized the reason why the stage1 compiler cannot be
> built with this patch is related to that several test suite programs exit
> with erros like this:****
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> GHC/Base.lhs:1:1:****
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>     GHC internal error: 'GHC.Base.Monad' is not in scope during type checking, but it passed the renamer****
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>     tcl_env of environment: []****
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> So the error is resolved, and now productive debugging can start.****
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> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Dan Rosén <danr at chalmers.se> wrote:****
>
>   Sorry! I thought I got this build error when making HEAD, but I don't.
> It builds fine.
>
> However, if I just cherry-pick this simple commit onto HEAD
> https://github.com/danr/ghc/commit/86631ffd294af320cb9b00e1a593201af887ed72
> ,
> then I do get this error, which is very puzzling. I did a make
> maintainer-clean in between. ****
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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:05 PM, David Luposchainsky <
> dluposchainsky at googlemail.com> wrote:****
>
>  On 2013-08-29 18:03, Austin Seipp wrote:
> > When was the last time you cleaned your tree? Earlier this week I made a
> > breaking change to the interface file format. If you have a build from
> > before then, update and incrementally rebuild, it will break.****
>
> I tried all of clean, distclean and maintainer-clean, followed by the
> usual build process. The issue remains.****
>
>
> David
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