[Msys2-users] Debugging undeterministic segfaults

[David Macek]

Hi. I just built GHC from master (1c35f9f1cb7a293da85d649904ce731a65824cfe) in my somewhat outdated MSYS2. I followed the wiki page with a few exceptions.

- I cleared my PATH before running the shell (I left only Windows and System32)
- my installation is not up-to-date
- I do not have msys2 libtool, automake nor binutils; if the build used any of those, they came from mingw64 or from the host ghc
- I had to run boot in pure msys2 shell, because mingw64 perl caused it to fail

I saw no segfaults, but I may have missed them. I did not get a ghc.exe, but that may be correct behavior for all I know. My simple test program compiled and ran fine. I saw a lot of warnings during ghc's build though:

- checking for DocBook DTD... I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd
- something with not finding any implementation of a module out of [ xxx.dylib, xxx, ... ], I think it was in cabal builds
- "could not find link destionations for: xxx"

I hope it helps somehow. Maybe your issues come from mixing msys2 and mingw toolchain after all.



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David Macek