MakingReleases outdated or build system problems

Hey, I have some problems following https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MakingReleases with HEAD.

I'll collect them here, maybe we can update the Wiki page together, or fix the corresponding problems in the build system if they are problems.

1. make sdist fails with the problem that ghc-tarballs doesn't exist. I've heard that's only needed on Windows, and that some people seem to get it by cloning a submodule when they are on Windows. A mkdir ghc-tarballs fixed it. Maybe that directory should be created by the build system?

2. When I make in the unpacked sdist tarball, I get

"" -P 'filename.as.url=0' utils/haddock/doc/haddock.xml --ps -o utils/haddock/doc/haddock.ps
"" -P 'filename.as.url=0' utils/haddock/doc/haddock.xml --pdf -o utils/haddock/doc/haddock.pdf
/bin/bash: : command not found
/bin/bash: : command not found
make[1]: *** [utils/haddock/doc/haddock.ps] Error 127
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [utils/haddock/doc/haddock.pdf] Error 127

Looks like some program was set to the empty string here.

Trac metadata

Trac field	Value
Version	7.10.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
Test case
Differential revisions
BlockedBy
Related
Blocking
CC	nh2
Operating system
Architecture

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I think the problem for 2) is that if dblatex is not found in the PATH, but the instructions

$ cat > mk/build.mk <<EOF
V=1
HADDOCK_DOCS=YES
LATEX_DOCS=YES
HSCOLOUR_SRCS=YES
BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML=YES
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF=YES
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS=YES
BeConservative=YES
EOF

force BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS/BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF to YES, then configure doesn't check that dblatex is actually available, and happily goes on with DBLATEX and DblatexCmd being set to "".

I think configure should check that dblatex is actually available, or DblatexCmd != "".

closed

changed milestone to %8.0.1

Turns out both issues are fixed already:

• The MakingReleases page now mentions to run ./mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download all first.
• When mk/build.mk says to build the documentation, but configure figured out that the right tools aren't available, then the build will error out with a nice message (#10157 (closed)).

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Trac field	Value
Resolution	Unresolved → ResolvedFixed

The new Hadrian build system has been merged. Relabeling the tickets concerning the legacy make build system to prevent confusion.

Trac metadata

Trac field	Value
Component	Build System → Build System (make)

added Pnormal label