Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

[Uwe Hollerbach]

On 12/19/08, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     lupus:~/ghc-6.8.3% ghc-6.8.3 -v
>>     dyld: relocation error (external relocation for symbol
>> _pthread_mutex_unlock
>>     in ghc-6.8.3 relocation entry 0 displacement too large)Trace/BPT trap
>>
>> Failure! ... or is it?
>
> I'd guess that the size of the binary has caused some kind of overflow of a
> short relocation field.  Any experts in MacOS linking around?
>
> You might want to try the testsuite with stage1 and see whether the failure
> shows up anywhere else.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon

Thanks, I will try that and see what I can find out.

regards,
Uwe