build failure on FreeBSD 9.1

Ian Lynagh ian at well-typed.com
Sun Mar 24 22:26:32 CET 2013


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:08:14PM +0100, Páli Gábor János wrote:
> 
> However, if I do not use --with-system-libffi, but libffi.so.6 is
> present on the system, the following happens at gmake binary-dist
> (just for your information):
> 
> $ gmake binary-dist
> [snip]
> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi.a: Cannot stat: No such
> file or directory

The .a lines probably mean you are missing

    commit 8575d01b4205b4545c54f9f1ba1d993a87bac72c
    Author: Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com>
    Date:   Sun Mar 24 17:29:30 2013 +0000

    Fix the names of the libffi archives

> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi_debug-ghc7.7.20130324.so:
> Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi_thr-ghc7.7.20130324.so:
> Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi_thr_debug-ghc7.7.20130324.so:
> Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi_l-ghc7.7.20130324.so:
> Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi_thr_l-ghc7.7.20130324.so:
> Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: ghc-7.7.20130324/rts/dist/build/libffi-6.dll: Cannot stat: No
> such file or directory

I get these too; they aren't a problem.


Thanks
Ian




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