GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on x86-64)

Fri Mar 4 08:56:49 EST 2005

On 02 March 2005 05:08, Brian Strand wrote:

> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>> bstrand:
>> 
>>> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>>> 
>>>> bstrand:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for
>>>>>> GHC on the x86_64 platform, which seem to indicate some kind of
>>>>>> occasional memory/GC problem.  I'm probably not going to be able
>>>>>> to track this down until after the 6.4 release, but we'll put
>>>>>> out a patch as soon as we have one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's an error building ghc-6.4.20050224ghc-6.4.20050224 via
>>>>> Anders' Debian x86-64 ghc, although it doesn't look like a
>>>>> memory/GC problem to my untrained eye: 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ==fptools== make boot - --no-print-directory -r;
>>>>> in /home/bstrand/src/ghc-6.4.20050224/ghc/lib/compat
>>>>>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ../../../glafp-utils/mkdependC/mkdependC -f .depend   
>>>>> -I../../includes -- -O    -- cbits/directory.c cbits/rawSystem.c
>>>>> /usr/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend  -osuf o    -H16m -O
>>>>> -H64m -O -I. -Rghc-timing -I../../../libraries -fglasgow-exts
>>>>> -no-recomp Compat/Directory.hs Compat/RawSystem.hs
>>>>> Distribution/Compat/ReadP.hs Distribution/Extension.hs
>>>>> Distribution/GetOpt.hs Distribution/InstalledPackageInfo.hs
>>>>> Distribution/License.hs Distribution/Package.hs
>>>>> Distribution/ParseUtils.hs Distribution/Setup.hs
>>>>> Distribution/Version.hs System/Directory/Internals.hs <<ghc:
>>>>> 15653112 bytes, 5 GCs, 73168/73168 avg/max bytes residency (1
>>>>> samples), 63M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.12 MUT (5.14
>>>>> elapsed),  
>>>>> 0.03 GC (0.57 elapsed) :ghc>>
>>>>> make all
>>>>> rm -f System/Directory/Internals.o; if [ ! -d
>>>>> System/Directory/Internals_split ]; then mkdir
>>>>> System/Directory/Internals_split; else /usr/bin/find
>>>>> System/Directory/Internals_split -name '*.o' -print | xargs rm -f
>>>>> __rm_food; fi; /usr/bin/ghc -H16m -O -H64m -O -I. -Rghc-timing 
>>>>> -I../../../libraries -fglasgow-exts -no-recomp -split-objs    -c
>>>>> System/Directory/Internals.hs-o System/Directory/Internals.o 
>>>>> -ohi System/Directory/Internals.hi warning: don't know how to
>>>>> split object files on this architecture <<ghc: 76094368 bytes, 11
>>>>> GCs, 2187736/4575048 avg/max bytes residency (3 samples), 66M in
>>>>> use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.87 MUT (13.77 elapsed), 0.14 GC
>>>>> (1.40 elapsed) :ghc>> ( cd System/Directory/Internals_split; rm
>>>>> -f ld.script; touch ld.script; echo "INPUT(" *.o ")" >>ld.script;
>>>>> /usr/bin/ld -r -x -o ../Internals.old.script; );
>>>>> /usr/bin/ld:ld.script: file format not recognized; treating as
>>>>> linker script /usr/bin/ld:ld.script:1: syntax error 
>>>>> make[4]: *** [System/Directory/Internals.o] Error 1
>>>>> make[3]: *** [boot] Error 2
>>>>> make[2]: *** [boot] Error 1
>>>>> make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>>>> `/home/bstrand/src/ghc-6.4.20050224/ghc' make: *** [build] Error 1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Can you try building with SplitObjs=NO ?
>>>> 
>>>> Wolfgang, Ryan - that looks like a splitter problem, no?
>>>> 
>>>> (The splitter is more of a dark art than the evil mangler, I
>>>> propose we name it the "diabolical splitter" from now on.)
>>>> 
>>>> -- Don
>>> 
>>> Using SplitObjs=NO gives out many warnings then finally dies with:
>>> 
>>> ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-O -optc-Wall -optc-W
>>> -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes
>>> -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return
>>> -optc-Wbad-function-cast -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel
>>> -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -H16m -O -H64m -O -O2
>>> -static -I. -#include Prelude.h -#include Rts.h -#include RtsFlags.h
>>> -#include RtsUtils.h -#include StgRun.h -#includeSchedule.h
>>> -#include Printer.h -#include Sanity.h -#include STM.h -#include
>>> Storage.h -#include SchedAPI.h -#include Timer.h -#include
>>> Itimer.h-#include ProfHeap.h -#include LdvProfile.h -#include
>>> Profiling.h -#include Apply.h -fvia-C -dcmm-lint     -c StgCRun.c
>>> -o StgCRun.o 
>>> In file included from ../includes/Stg.h:149,
>>>                 from StgCRun.c:67:
>>> ../includes/Regs.h:213: warning: call-clobbered register used for
>>> global register variable ../includes/Regs.h:342: warning:
>>> call-clobbered register used for global register variable
>>> /tmp/ghc13908.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ghc13908.s:20: Error:
>>> suffix or operands invalid for `jmp' make[2]: *** [StgCRun.o] Error
>>> 1 
>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bstrand/src/ghc-6.4.20050224/ghc'
>>> make: *** [build] Error 1
>> 
>> 
>> Are you building unregisterised? Those messages about global register
>> variables (I think) imply that you are not -- and we haven't yet got
>> x86_64 (terrible name, I much prefer amd64) registerised. Looks like
>> you might even have found the point where registerisation breaks.
>> 
>> Try building unregisterised:
>>     GhcUnregisterised=YES
>> 
>> just as the .hc bootstrap compiler was built.
>> 
>> -- Don
> 
> Well, I don't know much about how the bootstrap compiler was built (I
> just downloaded it from
>
http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/
ghc6/),
> but building with GhcUnregisterised=YES and SplitObjs=NO died with:
> 
> ==fptools== make all -wr;
>   in /home/bstrand/src/ghc-6.4.20050224/libraries/base
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -H64m -O -fglasgow-exts -cpp
> -Iinclude -"#include" HsBase.h -funbox-strict-fields -ignore-package
> base -O -Rghc-timing -fgenerics  -fgenerics    -c GHC/Base.lhs -o
> GHC/Base.o  -ohi GHC/Base.hi
> ghc-6.4.20050224: internal error: getMBlock: mmap: Invalid argument
>      Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
>      or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
> make[2]: *** [GHC/Base.o] Error 254
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/bstrand/src/ghc-6.4.20050224/libraries' make: *** [build]
> Error 1 

You need to remove some leftover .hi-boot and .o-boot files in
libraries.  These were left in the source distribution by mistake, they
won't be there for the final release.

Cheers,
	Simon