[Haskell-beginners] FreeBSD port build 8.4.3_1 - StackOverflowHook

[Sumit Raja]

> From: Roger Mason <rmason at mun.ca>
> It isn't clear from your message how you are building ghc.  I have
> ghc-8.4.3 installed from the port on FreeBSD 11.1 and it works without
> issue.
>
> These two lines:
>
> > /usr/local/lib/ghc-8.4.2/rts/libHSrts.a(RTS.o): In function `StackOverflowHook':
> > /home/ben/bin-dist-8.4.2-FreeBSD/ghc/rts/hooks/StackOverflow.c:16:0: error:
>
> refer to 8.4.2, which looks a bit fishy to me.

It was a standard port build using portsnap and make && make install.
Clean install of the ports tree using a fresh ghc to bootstrap worked
correctly - I think the ports tree was very broken.

-Sumit