loading package util on Linux

Dean Herington heringto at cs.unc.edu
Fri Apr 18 13:03:46 EDT 2003


Using GHC 5.04.3 (via
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/5.04.3/ghc-5.04.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2)
on one Linux box has a problem loading package "data":

================
[heringto at sediment work]$ uname -a
Linux sediment 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686
unknown
[heringto at sediment work]$ ghci -package data
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 5.04.3, for Haskell
98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package haskell98 ... linking ... done.
Loading package lang ... linking ... done.
Loading package concurrent ... linking ... done.
Loading package posix ... linking ... done.
Loading package util ... linking ...
/afs/isis.unc.edu/home/h/e/heringto/researc\
h/joint/ghc-5.04.3/lib/i386-unknown-linux/HSutil.o: unknown symbol
`rl_ding'
ghc-5.04.3: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 5.04.3):
        can't load package `util'

Please report it as a compiler bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.
================

However, doing so works fine on another Linux box:

================
swan(136)% uname -a
Linux swan.cs.unc.edu 2.4.18-26.7.xsmp #1 SMP Mon Feb 24 09:37:16 EST
2003 i686 \
unknown
swan(137)% ghci -package data
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 5.04.3, for Haskell
98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package haskell98 ... linking ... done.
Loading package lang ... linking ... done.
Loading package concurrent ... linking ... done.
Loading package posix ... linking ... done.
Loading package util ... linking ... done.
Loading package data ... linking ... done.
Prelude> :q
Leaving GHCi.
swan(138)%
================

Any idea what's wrong with the first Linux machine?

Dean





More information about the Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list