Building on Windows: the saga continues

Friends

As you know I am trying to build GHC on Windows. This has worked for years, but I have not been able to do it in the last fortnight. Progress has been made:

*        With Ian's help I updated 'autoreconf' which solved my first show-stopper

*        With Eirk's help I got past the mysterious "compiling powerpc code on x86" problem.

Now I get all the way to running the testsuite.   But then I get a seg-fault when configuring 'timeout'.

*        The build log output is below


*        I have tried repeating the same command line (the one starting "./Setup configure ..."), and it works fine if I omit --ghc-option=-threaded.  But with the -threaded

o   There's a complaint "ghc-stage2.exe: can't find a package database at C:\code\HEAD\inplace\lib\package.conf.d".  That path does exist, but it's a directory.

o   There's a seg-fault


*        I tried adding -v to see the exact GHC command line, but Cabal doesn't seem to print that out.

So I'm stuck again.  Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can dig further?  Has anyone else tried to compile GHC on Windows or am I alone?

I should say that I started with 'make maintainer-clean'.

Thanks

Simon


make[2]: Entering directory `/c/code/HEAD/testsuite/tests'
Looks like you don't have timeout, building it first...
make -C ../timeout all
make[3]: Entering directory `/c/code/HEAD/testsuite/timeout'
rm -f -f TimeMe.o TimeMe.hi TimeMe TimeMe.exe
python calibrate '' > calibrate.out
rm -rf install-inplace
'C:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe' --make Setup
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
Linking Setup.exe ...
./Setup configure --with-compiler='C:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe' \
                            --with-hc-pkg='C:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg.exe' \
                            --with-hsc2hs='C:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/hsc2hs.exe' \
                             \
                            --ghc-option=-threaded --prefix='C:/code/HEAD/testsuite/timeout/install-inplace'
Configuring timeout-1...
Segmentation fault/access violation in generated code
make[3]: *** [install-inplace/bin/timeout] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/code/HEAD/testsuite/timeout'
make[2]: *** [../timeout/install-inplace/bin/timeout.exe] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/code/HEAD/testsuite/tests'
make[1]: *** [fast] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/code/HEAD/testsuite/tests'
make: *** [test] Error 2

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