Re: Update Cabal submodule to HEAD (1.21)

2014-07-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 19.07.2014, 16:48 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: Am Samstag, den 19.07.2014, 01:14 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang: The reason for this is that the builders do not have a sufficiently recent version of process, which Cabal has upgraded to depend on. Probably 'cabal update

Re: Update Cabal submodule to HEAD (1.21)

2014-07-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 20.07.2014, 17:08 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang: As long as we get Cabal to do a release before we cut a release, it should be fine, so all we need is for Cabal to take the patch. Nevermind, I noticed you updated the submodule to Cabal HEAD, not Cabal some-release. But

The haddock / clang problem revisited ... root cause found...

2014-07-20 Thread Mark Lentczner
tl;dr: - cabal is the culprit - If you have the `Extensions: CPP` directive in your .cabal file, then when invoking haddock, cabal causes every file to be pre-processed twice in sequence. - pre-processing isn't idempotent - when done under clang, it outputs things that ghc.

Fatal git error on .git/modules/libffi-tarballs

2014-07-20 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, while working on HEAD and after a few iteraction of ./validate my git complains with: $ git status fatal: Not a git repository: /export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-src/ghc-git-test-2/.git/modules/libffi-tarballs karel@silence:~/vcs/ghc-src/ghc-solaris-validate-fix$ Is this a known error or

Re: Fatal git error on .git/modules/libffi-tarballs

2014-07-20 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hello Karel, You should blow away your copy (well, preserve the patches), upgrade your version of Git and then check out again. You've run into this bug: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/193492 Cheers, Edward Excerpts from Karel Gardas's message of 2014-07-20

Re: Update Cabal submodule to HEAD (1.21)

2014-07-20 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Since this patch causes GHC HEAD to not bootstrap out of the box from GHC 7.6, I've reverted it for now. We'll have to cross this bridge sometime though. Edward Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of 2014-07-20 17:18:56 +0100: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 20.07.2014, 17:08 +0100 schrieb Edward