7.8.1 plan

[Karel Gardas]

Hi Jens,

Ben Gamari (cced) documented it well here: 
http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2014-03-06-compiling-ghc-7.8-on-arm.html

Looks like the issue is caused by binutils' linker while fixed in gold.

Cheers,
Karel


On 04/ 9/14 10:21 AM, Jens Petersen wrote:
>     dll-split: internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure type 0
>          (GHC version 7.8.1 for arm_unknown_linux)
>          Please report this as a GHC bug:
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>     make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/dll-split.stamp] Aborted
>
>     See http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6719940 for
>     the full build.log, etc.
>     I reproduced this two times now. RC2 built okay on ARM so I am not
>     sure what changed.
>
>
> I tested and this also happens on Fedora 20 ARM [1] so I now doubt it
> could be due to any recent changes in Fedora devel (Rawhide).
> I filed <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8976>.
>
> Anyway I suppose it may be too late to fix for the 7.8.1 release but
> hopefully soon for 7.8.2.
>
> Jens
>
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6720188
>
>
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