Other than using integer-simple I haven't done anything strange, just standard mingw. I'm using the 'quick' flavour in my build.mk.
One thing to try is to use -d with make (and maybe tee the output to a file, it produces tons of stuff). Then it may be possible to pinpoint where it hangs. Niklas 2013/8/29 Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> > I was using integer-gmp. And sadly make –j2 locks up way before getting > to integer-gmp.**** > > ** ** > > Simon**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Niklas Larsson [mailto:metanik...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 28 August 2013 18:08 > *To:* Simon Peyton-Jones > *Cc:* Kyle Van Berendonck; ghc-devs@haskell.org > > *Subject:* Re: make -jN loops on Windows**** > > ** ** > > Hi!**** > > ** ** > > I have a hint of what could be wrong.**** > > ** ** > > I looked through my configuration and saw that I used integer-simple. When > I changed it to integer-gmp it blew up with -j4 (it didn't hang though, it > errored out in the linking phase). The build went fine after I reran > without -j.**** > > ** ** > > Niklas**** > > ** ** > > 2013/8/28 Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>**** > > I tried make –j2, which locked up. “sh validate” used –j but I’m not > sure with what N.**** > > **** > > It’s tantalising if it worked for you! And it worked fine on my old Win7 > laptop. Where did you get your mingw/msys installation from? I got mine > from http://www.mingw.org/, using the download installer > “Mingw-get-setup.exe”.**** > > **** > > I have also just unravelled another bizarre failure, which I’ll describe > in a separate email. Sadly resolving the latter does not fix the make –j2 > problem.**** > > **** > > Simon**** > > **** > > *From:* ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Niklas > Larsson > *Sent:* 27 August 2013 23:56 > *To:* Kyle Van Berendonck > *Cc:* ghc-devs@haskell.org > *Subject:* Re: make -jN loops on Windows**** > > **** > > Hi!**** > > **** > > Are you using make -j with or without number of jobs? I tried with make > -j4 on my Windows 8 machine and it worked well.**** > > **** > > Niklas**** > > **** > > 2013/8/27 Kyle Van Berendonck <kvanberendo...@gmail.com>**** > > Hi Simon,**** > > **** > > I think this is a MinGW bug. If we're talking about the same bug (lockup, > no console output, task manager shows cpu but it doesn't produce files, > etc) I get it when building other projects with -j too and I don't think > its GHC's fault.**** > > **** > > Regards,**** > > **** > > Kyle Van Berendonck**** > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs**** > > **** > > ** ** >
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