GHC Build System: make clean on windows requires ./configure to be rerun

[dterei]

On windows, with the ghc build system, if 'make clean' is run in the top level then the user can't simply run 'make' to build ghc after. The user must run './configure' again before 'make' can be run. The reason for this is 'make clean' removes the inplace mingw gcc binaries and they are installed into the inplace tree by './configure'.

This seems a bug to me. I expect to be able to run 'make' after running 'make clean'. I only expect to have to run './configure' again if I run 'make distclean' or 'make maintainer-clean'.

I checked the gnu standards then and they match my expectations.

 http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Clean.html#Clean  http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/standards/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets

[igloo]

It works for me. If you still think there's a problem, can you please reopen and include the error you get?

[dterei]

I still have the problem I reported. This is what happens if I run 'make clean && make':

[ 1 of 26] Compiling Data.Binary.Builder ( libraries\binary\src\Data\Binary\Builder.hs, bootstrapping\Data\Binary\Builder.o )
[ 2 of 26] Compiling Data.Binary.Put  ( libraries\binary\src\Data\Binary\Put.hs, bootstrapping\Data\Binary\Put.o )
[ 5 of 26] Compiling Data.Binary.Get  ( libraries\binary\src\Data\Binary\Get.hs, bootstrapping\Data\Binary\Get.o )
[ 6 of 26] Compiling Data.Binary      ( libraries\binary\src\Data\Binary.hs, bootstrapping\Data\Binary.o )
[23 of 26] Compiling Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo.Binary ( libraries\bin-package-db\Distribution\InstalledPackageInfo\Binary.hs, bootstrapping\Distribution\InstalledPackageInfo\Binary.o )
[25 of 26] Compiling Version          ( utils\ghc-pkg\Version.hs, bootstrapping\Version.o )
[26 of 26] Compiling Main             ( utils\ghc-pkg\Main.hs, bootstrapping\Main.o )
Linking utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/ghc-pkg.exe.exe ...
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" inplace/lib/package.conf.d/.
"rm" -f inplace/lib/package.conf.d/*
cp utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/ghc-pkg.exe.exe inplace/bin/ghc-pkg.exe
"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal.exe" configure --with-ghc="C:/dev/HaskellPlatform/bin/ghc.exe" --with-ghc-pkg="C:/dev/HaskellPlatform/bin/ghc-pkg" --with-gcc="C:/dev/cygwin/home/atdavid/Ghc/reg/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe" --configure-option=--with-cc="C:/dev/cygwin/home/atdavid/Ghc/reg/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe"  --package-db=C:/dev/cygwin/home/atdavid/Ghc/reg/libraries/bootstrapping.conf --enable-library-profiling --enable-library-for-ghci --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -fno-stack-protector  " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="  " --constraint "Cabal == 1.11.0" --constraint "hpc == 0.5.0.6" --constraint "extensible-exceptions == 0.1.1.2" --constraint "binary == 0.5.0.2" --constraint "bin-package-db == 0.0.0.0" -- dist-boot libraries/Cabal
Configuring Cabal-1.11.0...
ghc-cabal.exe: Cannot find the program 'gcc' at
'C:/dev/cygwin/home/atdavid/Ghc/reg/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe' or on the path
make[1]: *** [libraries/Cabal/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

[igloo]

Aha, thanks.

[igloo]

Fixed in HEAD and 7.0 by:

Sun Dec  5 13:20:48 PST 2010  Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
  * Tweak the cleaning of inplace/; fixes trac #4320