No luck installing on SuSE 7.1

[Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)]

The Illegal Instruction problem is known to us and will be
fixed in the upcoming 5.00.1 release, as will a bunch of 
other bugs.  We mistakenly configured GMP for i686-unknown-linux
and thereby got a GMP in GHC which uses PII/PIII specific
insns which don't exist on earlier (Pentium-I class) processors.

Regarding the segfault, I don't know ... could be one of many
problems.  If you send us a test program, we can check whether
or not it segs out using the current stable sources.

J

| -----Original Message-----
| From: William Chesters [mailto:williamc-sp at paneris.org] 
| Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:31 PM
| To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
| Subject: No luck installing on SuSE 7.1
| 
| 
| Hi, I'm trying to get GHC 5.00 installed on my SuSE 7.1 box.  
| I have tried (a) the binary distribution, (b) the source 
| distribution, (c) a CVS snapshot.
| 
| 
|    The binary distribution 
| ghc-5.00-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 does to some extent work 
| if I either install libreadline.so.3 manually or just symlink 
| it to libreadline.so.4.  I can compile and run trivial 
| programs and use ghci a bit.
| 
|    However the toy exe I build terminates with an "Illegal 
| instruction" signal (whether or not I use -via-C), and the 
| same quite quickly happens to ghci if I play around.  If I 
| copy the toy exe onto a Mandrake (~ RedHat) 6.0 machine I get 
| the same.  (If I copy it onto an RH5 machine I get segfault instead.)
| 
| 
|    The source distribution ghc-5.00-src.tar.bz2, with 
| ghc-5.00-i386-hc.tar.bz2 overlaid on it, gets some way 
| through compilation (using distrib/hc-build) and then fails:
| 
|   PWD = /home/williamc/packages/dist/ghc-5.00-snapshot/hslibs/util
|   
| --------------------------------------------------------------
| ----------
|   ../../ghc/utils/hsc2hs/hsc2hs-inplace Readline.hsc
|   gmake[1]: ../../ghc/utils/hsc2hs/hsc2hs-inplace: Command not found
| 
| If I edit the Makefile in that directory to skip Readline, I 
| can get it to continue on until:
| 
|   in /home/williamc/packages/dist/ghc-5.00-snapshot/ghc/driver
|   
| --------------------------------------------------------------
| ----------
|   gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `PackageSrc.o', needed 
| by `pkgconf'.  Stop.
|   gmake: *** [all] Error 1
|   gmake: Leaving directory 
| `/home/williamc/packages/dist/ghc-5.00-snapshot/ghc'
| 
| 
|    The CVS snapshot I obtained tonight, with 
| ghc-5.00-i386-hc.tar.bz2 overlaid on it, gets some way 
| through compilation (using autoconf and distrib/hc-build), 
| and then fails as follows:
| 
|   PWD = /home/williamc/packages/dist/ghc-5.00/fptools/hslibs/util
|   
| --------------------------------------------------------------
| ----------
|   gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `Readline_hsc.o', 
| needed by `libHSutil.a'.  Stop.
| 
| If I edit the Makefile in that directory to skip Readline, I 
| can get it to continue on until:
| 
|   PWD = /home/williamc/packages/dist/ghc-5.00/fptools/ghc/lib/std
|   
| --------------------------------------------------------------
| ----------
|   gcc -x c Directory.hc -o Directory.raw_s -S -O ..... `echo  
| | sed 's/^$/-DSTOLEN_X86_REGS=4/'`
|   Directory.hc:3: Directory_hsc.h: No such file or directory
|   gmake[2]: *** [Directory.raw_s] Error 1
| 
| 
| Any ideas??
| 
| Cheers,
| William
| 
| 
| P.S.  I can see now why the ocaml team keep the bytecode 
| interpreter alive---it does make bootstrapping an awful lot easier ...
| 
| P.P.S.  By the way I __love__ `echo  | sed 
| 's/^$/-DSTOLEN_X86_REGS=4/'`  ;-)
| 
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