GHC fails to build with mingw32-make on Windows
It would be nice to be able to build ghc on Windows with mingw32-make which is bundled with the prebuilt gcc package that we are using for the ghc build. mingw32-make might be faster (due to less overhead associated with POSIX compatibility, forks etc.) and more reliable - msys2's make is a bit glitchy because it needs to fork off a lot of processes and sometimes runs into issues with fork(), which should not be a problem for mingw32-make.
Trac metadata
| Trac field | Value |
|---|---|
| Version | 7.9 |
| Type | FeatureRequest |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Build System |
| Test case | |
| Differential revisions | |
| BlockedBy | |
| Related | |
| Blocking | |
| CC | |
| Operating system | |
| Architecture |