ghc fails "hello world" on ppc

[Simon Marlow]

> I forgot to say that the version is 6.0.1.
> 
> So... can anyone else reproduce this? Is there a stable version of the
> compiler which I should be using instead? Is there anything I can do
> to help fix this bug?
> 
> frederik at ugcs.caltech.edu writes:
> 
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux fly 2.4.19-quiet #10 Tue Jan 12 17:02:50 PST 1904 ppc 
> GNU/Linux
> > $ cat > test.hs                 
> > main =
> >     do
> >     putStr "hello\n"
> >     putStr "world\n"
> > $ ghc --make test.hs && ./a.out       
> > Chasing modules from: test.hs
> > Compiling Main             ( test.hs, ./test.o )
> > Linking ...
> > world
> > world

That is truly bizarre, but I'm afraid there's not much we can do to help
here, not having the hardware to test on.  You might want to try mailing
Sven Moritz Hallberg <1hallber at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> (who did the
port) directly, but IIRC he hasn't been active on these lists recently.

Cheers,
	Simon