diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 75a143e..587bcf3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ An impact assessment is due when The procedure is as follows: -1. Rebase changes, mandated by your proposal, atop of `ghc-9.10` branch. +1. Rebase changes, mandated by your proposal, atop of `ghc-9.10.2` tag. Mind: the branch `ghc-9.10` is not okay since different minor versions + may ship different boot libraries. Mind that you want to probably also use the default flavour (not e.g. `devel2` as that may also cause + issues) 2. Compile a patched GHC, say, `~/ghc/_build/stage1/bin/ghc`. @@ -36,6 +38,8 @@ The procedure is as follows: * You can interrupt `cabal` at any time and rerun again later. * Consider setting `--jobs` to retain free CPU cores for other tasks. * Full build requires roughly 7 Gb of free disk space. + * if the build fails with an error about max amount of arguments in `gcc`, run again, + but with smaller batch size. 250 worked well for me. To get an idea of the current progress, we can run the following commands on the log file: