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Build instructions in contributing.rst are wrong #274
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Sounds like an issue with the I can't reproduce the failure. |
Do you mean you can only bootstrap happy-2 by happy-2 ? Then maybe this should be added to the doc. To me it looks more like happy-2 wants some template that has not been created. Maybe |
Not at all. I mean that your installation of |
Well, it is not. I use it all the time, to rebuild Agda, to test BNFC etc. Also, the non-existing file mentioned in the error is in the domain of
@int-index wrote:
You hypothesis there was never confirmed. And here is the counterevidence: I can exactly reproduce #262 (and my error) in a workflow:
The workflow (c9b18cb) follows the build instructions in the manual. Maybe your system isn't clean, that's why you cannot reproduce the issue? You might have happy-2 install artefacts lying around, maybe after running |
OK, I've reproduced this on another machine. Seems to be a non-deterministic failure, sensitive to build order. Could you try this sequence of commands?
Building |
Yes this works. But why? happy/packages/frontend/happy-frontend.cabal Lines 41 to 46 in 535ce96
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The failure seems to be caused by I can reliably reproduce the failure as follows
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Could it be a problem in cabal? Here's the version I have on the machine where the problem is reproducible
And here's the version on the machine where I cannot reproduce the problem
You can see that it uses a newer version of the Cabal library. It also does not extend the environment with |
No, I take that back. It does reproduce the problem on one machine but not on the other one. I'm lost again. |
happy/doc/contributing.rst
Lines 36 to 43 in 535ce96
On a fresh working copy of
master
( 535ce96 ):ATTN: @Ericson2314 @int-index
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