Problem building GHC

[Simon Marlow]

On 14 July 2005 22:02, Dinko Tenev wrote:

> It turns out, ar couldn't quite handle building the symbol table for
> the archive.  I tried ar qS, then ranlib the archive, but ranlib turns
> out to be exactly the same kind of brittle crap...
> 
> I am currently looking for more robust binutils - I'll appreciate any
> siggestions.

I tried this experiment too, with the same results.

As a workaround you can disable object splitting.  Add the line
"SplitObjs=NO" to mk/build.mk before building.

Cheers,
	Simon