HSQL installation woes

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Fri Nov 11 09:26:23 EST 2005


On 06 November 2005 20:31, Ed Osinski wrote:

> I'm trying to install GHC and related software under Solaris 9 and am
> stuck at HSQL.  I initially used the binary package of ghc 6.4.1.  It
> installed w/o any problems, and I was able to build alex, happy,
> haddock and cpphs.  However, when trying to install HSQL-1.6, it
> complained about "ld" not recognizing "-x".  I guess this is due to
> the binary package for Solaris being built on a machine that used the
> GNU linker, which recognizes "-x"?  Anyway, this led me to build ghc
> 6.4.1 from source, with gcc 4.0.2, which was successful. :-) However,
> when I try to install HSQL-1.6, it dies during the build step. :-(
> 
> Here is the output:
> 
> 	/sware/build/HSQL-1.6/HSQL |> runghc Setup.lhs configure
> 	Warning: No license-file field.
> 	Configuring hsql-1.6...
> 	configure: searching for ghc in path.
> 	configure: found ghc at /usr/local/bin/ghc
> 	configure: looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in
> 	/usr/local/bin/ghc configure: found package tool in
> 	/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg configure: Using install prefix:
/usr/local
> 	configure: Using compiler: /usr/local/bin/ghc
> 	configure: Compiler flavor: GHC
> 	configure: Compiler version: 6.4.1
> 	configure: Using package tool: /usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg
> 	configure: Using haddock: /usr/local/bin/haddock
> 	configure: Using happy: /usr/local/bin/happy
> 	configure: Using alex: /usr/local/bin/alex
> 	configure: Using hsc2hs: /usr/local/bin/hsc2hs
> 	configure: Using cpphs: /usr/local/bin/cpphs
> 	configure: Reading installed packages...
> 	configure: Dependency base-any: using base-1.0
> 	/sware/build/HSQL-1.6/HSQL |> runghc Setup.lhs build
> 	Preprocessing library hsql-1.6...
> 	Building hsql-1.6...
> 	Chasing modules from: Database.HSQL,Database.HSQL.Types
> 	Compiling Database.HSQL.Types ( ./Database/HSQL/Types.hs,
> 	dist/build/./Database/HSQL/Types.o ) Compiling Database.HSQL
(
> 	./Database/HSQL.hs, dist/build/./Database/HSQL.o ) ***
Exception:
> waitForProcess: interrupted (Interrupted system call) 
> 
> This error happens consistently, but sometimes one line earlier.
> Googling reveals that at least one person encountered this exception
> on Solaris in the recent past:

I think this means that GHC crashed.  waitForProcess throws the
"interrupted" exception whenever the sub-process it is waiting for
receives a signal, such as a SIGSEGV.  This is the wrong behaviour, I'll
look into fixing it.  

The next step is to find out why GHC is crashing - you could try running
GHC on its own, independently of Cabal (use "runghc Setup.lhs -v" to get
the command line).

Cheers,
	Simon



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