Is Haste supposed/known to work on FreeBSD?

[WolframKahl]

I am trying now, for the first time, to install Haste on my PC-BSD laptop; this is essentially a thin wrapper around FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5.

With haste-compiler, I am still using 8ac3ae9 .

Identical procedure (involving a custom installation of GHC-7.10.3) works on Linux.

On the PC-BSD box I get very low-level errors from haste-boot, so my first suspicion is that maybe Haste hasn't been tried on FreeBSD yet?

Downloading Google Closure compiler...
Reading package info from "libraries/rts.pkg" ... done.
Warning: Topdown solver is deprecated
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring ghc-prim-0.4.0.0...
Building ghc-prim-0.4.0.0...
Installed ghc-prim-0.4.0.0
Reading package info from "ghc-prim-0.4.0.0.conf" ... done.
Warning: Topdown solver is deprecated
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring integer-gmp-0.5.0.0...
Building integer-gmp-0.5.0.0...
Installed integer-gmp-0.5.0.0
cleaning...
Warning: Topdown solver is deprecated
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring base-4.8.0.0...
Building base-4.8.0.0...
Failed to install base-4.8.0.0
Build log ( /usr/home/kahl/.haste-cabal/logs/base-4.8.0.0.log ):
Configuring base-4.8.0.0...
Building base-4.8.0.0...
Preprocessing library base-4.8.0.0...
In file included from include/Rts.h:216:0,
                 from Flags.hsc:32:
include/rts/storage/Block.h: In function 'Bdescr':
include/rts/storage/Block.h:171:8: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
     ((((W_)p &  MBLOCK_MASK & ~BLOCK_MASK) >> (BLOCK_SHIFT-BDESCR_SHIFT))
        ^
include/rts/storage/Block.h:172:9: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
      | ((W_)p & ~MBLOCK_MASK)
         ^
In file included from include/Rts.h:217:0,
                 from Flags.hsc:32:
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h: In function 'GET_CLOSURE_TAG':
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:205:12: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
     return (StgWord)p & TAG_MASK;
            ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h: In function 'UNTAG_CLOSURE':
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:211:26: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
     return (StgClosure*)((StgWord)p & ~TAG_MASK);
                          ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:211:12: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
     return (StgClosure*)((StgWord)p & ~TAG_MASK);
            ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h: In function 'TAG_CLOSURE':
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:217:26: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
     return (StgClosure*)((StgWord)p | tag);
                          ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:217:12: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
     return (StgClosure*)((StgWord)p | tag);
            ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h: In function 'LOOKS_LIKE_INFO_PTR_NOT_NULL':
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:247:45: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
     StgInfoTable *info = INFO_PTR_TO_STRUCT((StgInfoTable *)p);
                                             ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h: In function 'LOOKS_LIKE_CLOSURE_PTR':
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:258:32: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
     return LOOKS_LIKE_INFO_PTR((StgWord)(UNTAG_CLOSURE((StgClosure *)(p)))->header.info);
                                ^
In file included from include/Rts.h:209:0,
                 from Flags.hsc:32:
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h: In function 'stack_frame_sizeW':
include/rts/storage/InfoTables.h:390:53: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
 #define GET_LARGE_BITMAP(info) ((StgLargeBitmap*) (((StgWord) ((info)+1)) \
                                                     ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:431:20: note: in expansion of macro 'GET_LARGE_BITMAP'
         return 1 + GET_LARGE_BITMAP(&info->i)->size;
                    ^
include/rts/storage/InfoTables.h:390:33: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
 #define GET_LARGE_BITMAP(info) ((StgLargeBitmap*) (((StgWord) ((info)+1)) \
                                 ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:431:20: note: in expansion of macro 'GET_LARGE_BITMAP'
         return 1 + GET_LARGE_BITMAP(&info->i)->size;
                    ^
In file included from include/Rts.h:210:0,
                 from Flags.hsc:32:
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:434:36: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
         return 2 + BCO_BITMAP_SIZE((StgBCO *)((P_)frame)[1]);
                                    ^
include/rts/storage/Closures.h:254:61: note: in definition of macro 'BCO_BITMAP'
 #define BCO_BITMAP(bco)      ((StgLargeBitmap *)((StgBCO *)(bco))->bitmap)
                                                             ^
include/rts/storage/ClosureMacros.h:434:20: note: in expansion of macro 'BCO_BITMAP_SIZE'
         return 2 + BCO_BITMAP_SIZE((StgBCO *)((P_)frame)[1]);
                    ^
In file included from include/Rts.h:234:0,
                 from Flags.hsc:32:
include/rts/Threads.h: At top level:
include/rts/Threads.h:53:1: error: unknown type name 'pid_t'
 pid_t  forkProcess     (HsStablePtr *entry);
 ^
In file included from include/Rts.h:237:0,
                 from Flags.hsc:32:
include/rts/Stable.h: In function 'deRefStablePtr':
include/rts/Stable.h:40:29: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
     return stable_ptr_table[(StgWord)sp].addr;
                             ^
compiling dist/build/GHC/RTS/Flags_hsc_make.c failed (exit code 1)
command was: /usr/local/bin/gcc -c dist/build/GHC/RTS/Flags_hsc_make.c -o dist/build/GHC/RTS/Flags_hsc_make.o -fno-stack-protector -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=710 -D__HASTE__=006 -Dfreebsd_BUILD_OS=1 -Dx86_64_BUILD_ARCH=1 -Dfreebsd_HOST_OS=1 -Dx86_64_HOST_ARCH=1 -Iinclude -Idist/build/autogen -include dist/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -I/usr/home/kahl/.haste/x86_64-freebsd-haste-0.6.0.0-ghc-7.10.3/include -I/usr/local/packages/CalcCheck5/lib/ghc-7.10.3/include/
ExitFailure 1ExitFailure 1haste-cabal.bin: Error: some packages failed to install:
base-4.8.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
haste-boot: Command `/usr/local/packages/CalcCheck5/bin/haste-cabal' failed with error code 1

$ uname -a
FreeBSD hermes 10.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Jun 30 03:52:15 UTC 2016     root@amd64-builder.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

[valderman]

It's never been tested on any BSD except for OSX, I'm afraid. The build is quite brittle at the moment, but I imagine that once the build is fixed everything should probably work. Unfortunately I don't have time to spare supporting BSD, but I'd gladly merge any related PRs.

[WolframKahl]

On OSX, are you using clang or gcc?
Any pointers where to start on this, if I get to looking into it in detail?

[valderman]

It's the clang GCC wrapper, I'm afraid. The best place to start is probably the system includes (as well as the ones for base). The current set is essentially a pre-configured set of Linux GHC includes, beaten with a hammer just enough times to compile on OSX and Windows too. Properly generating these from autoconf (or just beating them with a hammer some more...) would likely go a long way towards fixing the problem.

[WolframKahl]

Thank you! --- That at least gives me an idea. However, I am still wondering why haste-boot compiles any C to native code at all? I thought that the native code compilation is already done, and haste-boot prepares the JavaScript libraries?