ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

[Matthias Kilian]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
> I've tried to build a binary dist on x86 under Solaris and did not succeed.
> 
> "make binary-dist" failed with
> 
> 1.
> for FILE in     ; do if [ -e $FILE ]; then echo
> ghc-6.10.0.20080921/gmp/$FILE >>
> /export/local1/home/maeder/haskell/ghc-6.10.0.20080921/bindist-list
> ; fi; done
> /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `;' unexpected
> gmake[1]: *** [binary-dist] Error 2
> 
> 
> I added "strip" to bindist.mk:
> ifneq "$(strip $(BINDIST_EXTRAS))" ""

This part could be done a little bit different (without the
conditional):

	...
	# And enything else
	echo $(BINDIST_EXTRAS) | \
		xargs -n1 | \
		sed '/^$/d;s/.*/test -e & \&\& echo $(WHERE_AM_I)\/&/' | \
		sh >> $(BIND_DIST_LIST)

(untested!)

> 2.
> /bin/sh: test: argument expected
> gmake[1]: *** [binary-dist] Error 1
> 
> -e does not work for test under "sh", so I changed it to "-r":
> ... if [ -r $$FILE ]; then ...

I doubt `-e' doesn't work on Solaris, because `-e' is POSIX. Does
this "argument expected" still appear with your fix to 1.?

> 3.
> tar hcf /export/local1/home/maeder/haskell/ghc-6.10.0.20080921/ghc-6.10.0.
> 20080921-i386-unknown-solaris2.tar -T
> /export/local1/home/maeder/haskell/ghc-6.10.0.20080921/bindist-list
> tar: -T: No such file or directory
> gmake: *** [binary-dist] Error 1
> 
> I changed tar to gtar

Or use pax(1), which in contrast to tar(1) and gtar(1) is POSIX:

	pax -hwf $(BIN_DIST_TAR) < $(BIN_DIST_LIST)

(also untested, but should work)

> 4.
> gtar: ghc-6.10.0.20080921/gmp/{}: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> 
> The file bindist-list contained "{}" instead of filenames, so I changed
> find to gfind.

Or just omit all the -exec echo ${WHERE_AM_I}/{} goo and use find(1)
and sed(1), e.g.:

	find $(WHATEVER) -print | sed 's/^/$(WHERE_AM_I}\//'

> 5. When trying to install the binary distribution I got:
> 
> Installing executable(s) in /local/home/maeder/bin
> installPackage: dist-install/build/installPackage/installPackage:
> copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

Maybe fallout from some of the above problems?

Ciao,
	Kili