http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ is *much* better than stock msys. I've successfully built ghc HEAD quite recently (a month ago or so) using it.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes; it appears that in the current MSYS release, 'make -jn' goes into an > infinite loop. This is very depressing. I do not know a fix. > > If you google around and find a fix, do tell us. Currently I have to use > THREADS=1 all the time > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: ghc-devs [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edsko > | de Vries > | Sent: 01 October 2013 16:21 > | To: [email protected] > | Subject: Make spins with THREADS>1 on Win 7 > | > | Hi all, > | > | Trying to get a build going on Win 7. On both the 32-bit and the > | 64-bit version running 'sh validate' stalls at > | > | "inplace/bin/mkdirhier" utils/touchy/dist/build/tmp//. > | > | At this point nothing happens, other than that I seem to have 100% CPU > | usage; 'ps' only shows two make processes, but no further > | subprocesses. Not sure what's going on here. Running 'sh validate > | --no-clean' after killing both make processes at this point stalls at > | the same point; running it with THREADS=1 seems to resolve the issue. > | > | Anybody any idea what might be going on? > | > | Edsko > | _______________________________________________ > | ghc-devs mailing list > | [email protected] > | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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