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authorTamar Christina <tamar@zhox.com>2015-07-30 10:36:45 +0200
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2015-07-30 17:05:35 +0200
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Make configure error out on missing ghc-tarballs on Windows
Currently checking out the source on windows requires two git checkouts. One for the GHC sources and one for the GHC-tarballs. This patch will make configure issue an error if compiling under windows and the GHC-tarballs folder is missing. On failure the user is told which command they need to run to get the tarballs or if they want configure to handle it for them configure provide the `--enable-tarballs-autodownload` flag. Test Plan: 1. make sure ghc-tarballs folder is not present 2. run ./configure which should fail giving an error that tarballs is missing and how to get it 3. run ./configure --enable-tarballs-autodownload and the tarballs should be downloaded and configure finishes 4. rerun the command in 3, no new download should be done. 5. run configure without --enable-tarballs-autodownload, configure should finish correctly. Reviewers: bgamari, austin, thomie Reviewed By: thomie Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1108 GHC Trac Issues: #10705
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@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
$ make
$ make install
+ On Windows, you need an extra repository containing some build tools.
+ These can be downloaded for you by configure. This only needs to be done once by running:
+
+ $ ./configure --enable-tarballs-autodownload
+
The "perl boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
from git. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
this step has already been performed.