[GHC] #7874: segfault 11 on mac os x when building compiler for ghc 7.7.20130430

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#7874: segfault 11 on mac os x when building compiler for ghc 7.7.20130430
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Reporter:  carter               |          Owner:                
    Type:  bug                  |         Status:  new           
Priority:  normal               |      Component:  Compiler      
 Version:  7.7                  |       Keywords:                
      Os:  MacOS X              |   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)
 Failure:  Building GHC failed  |      Blockedby:                
Blocking:                       |        Related:                
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Comment(by carter):

 when i do the quick -fasm build rather than the -fllvm build this segfault
 doesn't happen ... does that mean theres a problem with llvm code
 generation on os x?

 the results of my make test run

 OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Tue Apr 30 16:06:51 EDT 2013
     3628 total tests, which gave rise to
    14337 test cases, of which
    11044 were skipped

       28 had missing libraries
     3182 expected passes
       56 expected failures

        3 caused framework failures
        2 unexpected passes
       22 unexpected failures

 Unexpected passes:
    driver           T5313 (normal)
    perf/should_run  T149 (normal)

 Unexpected failures:
    codeGen/should_run        cgrun071 [bad exit code] (normal)
    driver                    T2507 [bad stderr] (normal)
    ghc-api/T7478             T7478 [bad exit code] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T1969 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T3064 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T3294 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T4801 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T5030 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T5321FD [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T5321Fun [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T5631 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T5642 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T5837 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             T6048 [stat not good enough] (optasm)
    perf/compiler             T783 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/compiler             parsing001 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/should_run           T4474a [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/should_run           T4474b [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/should_run           T4474c [stat not good enough] (normal)
    simplCore/should_compile  T4908 [stderr mismatch] (optasm)
    simplCore/should_compile  T7360 [stderr mismatch] (optasm)
    simplCore/should_compile  spec-inline [stderr mismatch] (optasm)

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