GHC on powerpc (OS X): segmentation fault

[Chris Kuklewicz]

I am having trouble compiling GHC using mac ports on powerpc OS X (10.5.5) 
(using XCode 3.1).

I have also opened a ticket at http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17184 which has 
the full build log attached.

The build starts with

> nice port -c upgrade ghc
> --->  Staging gmp into destroot
> --->  Packaging tgz archive for gmp 4.2.4_0
> --->  Deactivating gmp 4.2.3_0
> --->  Installing gmp 4.2.4_0
> --->  Activating gmp 4.2.4_0
> --->  Cleaning gmp
> --->  Fetching ghc
> --->  Attempting to fetch ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 from http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
> --->  Attempting to fetch ghc-6.10.1-src-extralibs.tar.bz2 from http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
> --->  Attempting to fetch ghc-6.8.2-darwin-ppc-leopard-bootstrap.tar.bz2 from http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.2/
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for ghc
> --->  Extracting ghc
> --->  Applying patches to ghc
> --->  Configuring ghc
> --->  Building ghc with target all
> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1 && env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib make" returned error 2
> Command output: /private/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc -optc-O -optc-I/opt/local/include -optc-Wall -optc-W -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel -optc-Ism -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-I/opt/local/include -optc-I../gmp/gmpbuild -optc-I../libffi/build/include -optc-fno-strict-aliasing  -H32m -O -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -optc-O2 -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -Ism -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts -static  -I/opt/local/include -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I../libffi/build/include -I. -dcmm-lint     -c parallel/GranSim.c -o parallel/GranSim.o


Eventually the build fails with

> /private/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc -optc-O -optc-I/opt/local/include -optc-Wall -optc-W -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel -optc-Ism -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-I/opt/local/include -optc-I../gmp/gmpbuild -optc-I../libffi/build/include -optc-fno-strict-aliasing  -H32m -O -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -optc-O2 -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -Ism -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts -static  -I/opt/local/include -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I../libffi/build/include -I. -dcmm-lint     -c sm/Sweep.c -o sm/Sweep.o

> /private/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc  -H32m -O -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -optc-O2 -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -Ism -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts -static  -I/opt/local/include -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I../libffi/build/include -I. -dcmm-lint     -c Apply.cmm -o Apply.o

> make[1]: *** [Apply.o] Segmentation fault

> make: *** [stage1] Error 2

Does anyone have a clue how to proceed?