Hey Simon, This is nicely explained by Ryan in the message for the latest commit to exceptions:
Add dist-boot to .gitignore This is generated by GHC when building `exceptions` now that it has been made a stage-0 boot library (as of commitghc/ghc@3027241 <https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/30272412fa437ab8e7a8035db94a278e10513413>). https://github.com/ekmett/exceptions/commit/23c0b8a50d7592af37ca09beeec16b93080df98f Best, Artem On Fri, May 15, 2020, 11:02 AM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs < ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote: > Thanks. It does have a directory dist-install/ in it – but that’s put > there by the build system, so if I remove it, it’ll just come back. And > other libraries (like deepseq) has dist-install too but does not complain. > So mysterious. > > > > On the other hand git submodule update –recursive **did** fix it. Seems > odd. I’m already saying “submodules” and I don’ think any submodules have > further submodules – or do they? > > > > Simon > > > > *From:* ghc-devs <ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org> *On Behalf Of *Hécate > *Sent:* 15 May 2020 15:37 > *To:* ghc-devs@haskell.org > *Subject:* Re: Strange library git glitch > > > > My bad, it seems like this is another issue. > > I found this StackOverflow page quite helpful in explaining the hows and > whys: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4873980/git-diff-says-subproject-is-dirty > > Cheers, > > Hécate > > Le 15/05/2020 à 16:30, Hécate a écrit : > > Hi Simon, > > I usually manage to get it to disappear by using `git submodule update > --recursive`. > Is it a flag you've used in your previous attempts? > > Cheers, > > Hécate. > > Le 15/05/2020 à 16:24, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs a écrit : > > No amount of git submodule update makes it go away. Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > ghc-devs@haskell.org > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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