ghc-5.02 build on SunOS 5.6 fails with segmentation fault

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Yes, we've seen behaviour like this here on that platform.
If you try feeding the failing compiler invocation the extra
command-line option "-dshow-passes" and it shows up as
failing pretty early on in the game (parsing, renaming),
here's something you may want to try out:

 - in mk/build.mk (in the toplevel directory), define the
   following

           GHC_HAPPY_OPTS=-g

  - in ghc/compiler/ remove the following files

       parser/Parser.o parser/Parser.hs
       parser/ParseIface.o parser/ParseIface.hs
       main/ParsePkgConf.o main/ParsePkgConf.hs

     and do a 'make all'

  - with the freshly built contents of ghc/compiler in hand,
     proceed to ghc/lib and continue.

This may or may not address your problem -- I've yet to
isolate the bug we were running into, but poking around
with 'gdb' suggested that the string-encoded tables that
Happy generates when using the options "-agc" was causing
the problem.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Akop Pogosian" <akopps@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 17:12
Subject: ghc-5.02 build on SunOS 5.6 fails with segmentation fault


> I am trying to build ghc-5.02 on Solaris 2.6. I already have a
> ghc-4.08 distribution that works. ghc build fails after nearly two
> hours of compiling with this error:
>
> /opt/local/bin/ld -r -x -o PrelDynamic.p_o PrelDynamic/*.p_o;
> rm -f PrelIOBase.p_o; if [ ! -d PrelIOBase ]; then mkdir PrelIOBase; else
/usr/b
> in/find PrelIOBase -name '*.p_o' | xargs rm -f __rm_food; fi;
>
../../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -ldl -fvia-C -cpp -fglasgow-exts -O -Rghc-
timing -package-name std  -split-objs -hisuf p_hi -hcsuf p_hc -osuf
p_o -prof -funbox-strict-fields  -fno-ignore-asserts  -c PrelIOBase.lhs -o
PrelIOBase.p_o
> Segmentation Fault
> gmake[4]: *** [PrelIOBase.p_o] Error 1
> gmake[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 1
> gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/akopps/ghc-5.02/ghc'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 1
>
>
> Has anyone seen this happen before?
>
>
> -akop
>
>
>
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