trouble running GHCi 6.4 on PowerPC GNU/Linux

[Simon Marlow]

K.D.P.Ross wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> I am having a bit of trouble running GHCi on my GNU/Linux  distribution 
> and was
> referred to this mail address by the crash message:
> 
> [begin terminal session-
> $> ghci
>    ___         ___ _
>   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
> / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.4, for Haskell 98.
> / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.
> 
> Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package mtl-1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package lang-1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package QuickCheck-1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package readline-1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package unix-1.0 ... ghc-6.4: Unable to mmap( MAP_FIXED ) for  
> Jump Islands
> 
> ghc-6.4: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.4):
>         loadObj: failed
> 
> Please report it as a compiler bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
> or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.

I believe this one has been fixed post-6.4.1, so the fix will be in 
6.4.2.  Revision 1.209 of ghc/rts/Linker.c is the relevant commit, which 
has been merged into the 6.4 branch.

Cheers,
	Simon