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

[Sylvain Henry]

My bad, in fact we do.

Could you try with the attached patch? It shows the failing filename in 
the archive.


On 11/11/2016 17:18, Sylvain Henry wrote:
>
> 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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