building 5.03 from source and illegal buffer size

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Wed, 8 May 2002 15:32:57 +0100


> I just grabbed 5.03 from cvs and built it.  Everything worked=20
> fine, except
> when I go to compile using ghc-inplace, it tells me:
>=20
> invalid argument
> Action: hPutBuf
> Handle: {closed}
> Reason: illegal buffer size 0
>=20
> It appears able to generate the .hi file, but not the .o.  I=20
> ran with -v and attached the transcript.

I see you're using 5.02.1 to build with - could you perhaps upgrade to
5.02.3 and try again?

Cheers,
	Simon