"Funny global thing?"

[Reuben Thomas]

> I'm getting some strange error messages when trying to compile Ralf Hinze's
> lhs2TeX under GHC 4.08.1 and a pretty recent cygwin install on Windows 2000.
> The strange thing is that I was able to compile these sources previously,
> with the same ghc but an older cygwin.  Any ideas?  I've not run into the
> "Funny global thing?" message before.

This is because Cygwin's GCC recently changed its use of whitespace (I think
it added a space to the end of every line) and broke our mangler (our fault,
it was too sensitive; we've changed it). Exec summary: you need 4.08.2.

> But without -O, it seems okay:

That's because it then uses the native code generator, not GCC.

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