177 unexpected test failures on a new system -- is this yet another linker issue?

[Sylvain Henry]

It seems like we don't bypass the special filename "/" (symbol lookup 
table) in rts/Linker.c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_(Unix)#System_V_.28or_GNU.29_variant


On 11/11/2016 16:49, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> Ah, sorry, that line was truncated. I posted the output here: 
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/osa1/ea72655b8369099e84a67e0949adca7e/raw/9e72cbfb859cb839f1898af39a46ff0896237d15/gistfile1.txt 
>
>
> That line should be
> +ghc-iserv.bin: internal loadArchive: GNU-variant filename offset not found while reading filename from `/home/omer/haskell/ghc/libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/libHSghc-prim-0.5.0.0.a'
> +    (GHC version 8.1.20161107 for x86_64_unknown_linux)
> +    Please report this as a GHC bug:http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>
> 2016-11-11 0:52 GMT-05:00 Reid Barton <rwbarton at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rwbarton at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan
>     <omeragacan at gmail.com <mailto:omeragacan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > I'm trying to validate on a new system (not sure if related, but
>     it has gcc
>     > 6.2.1 and ld 2.27.0), and I'm having 177 unexpected failures,
>     most (maybe
>     > even
>     > all) of them are similar to this one:
>     >
>     >     =====> T5976(ext-interp) 1 of 1 [0, 0, 0]
>     >     cd "./th/T5976.run" && "/home/omer/haskell/ghc/inplace/test
>     > spaces/ghc-stage2" -c T5976.hs -dcore-dno-debug-output
>     -XTemplateHaskell
>     > -package template-haskell -fexternal-interpreter -v0
>     >     Actual stderr output differs from expected:
>     >     --- ./th/T5976.run/T5976.stderr.normalised     2016-11-10
>     > 23:01:39.351997560 -0500
>     >     +++ ./th/T5976.run/T5976.comp.stderr.normalised 2016-11-10
>     > 23:01:39.351997560 -0500
>     >     @@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
>     >     -
>     >     -T5976.hs:1:1:
>     >     -    Exception when trying to run compile-time code:
>     >     -      bar
>     >     -CallStack (from HasCallStack):
>     >     -  error, called at T5976.hs:<line>:<column> in
>     <package-id>:Main
>     >     -    Code: error ((++) "foo " error "bar")
>     >     +ghc-iserv.bin: internal loadArchive: GNU-variant filename
>     offset not
>     > found while reading filename f
>
>     Did this line get truncated? It might help to have the rest of it.
>
>     Regards,
>     Reid Barton
>
>
>
>
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