Segmentation fault trying to build ghc 6.10.1 using macports, Mac OS X 10.5, PPC

[Christian Maeder]

David Menendez wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade GHC to 6.10.1 using macports on a PowerBook G4
> running OS X 10.5.5. From what I can tell, I'm getting a segmentation
> fault from cabal-bin.

On PPC leopard you need to update to XCode 3.1
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/MacOSX
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2887

HTH Christian

> 
> This is possibly related to <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15142>
> and <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2380>.
> 
> 
> cd extensible-exceptions &&
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/cabal-bin
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping.conf
> configure --distpref=dist-bootstrapping
> --with-compiler=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc
> --with-hc-pkg=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc-pkg
> --package-db=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping.conf.tmp
> /bin/sh: line 1: 19203 Segmentation fault
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/cabal-bin
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping.conf
> configure --distpref=dist-bootstrapping
> --with-compiler=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc
> --with-hc-pkg=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc-pkg
> --package-db=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping.conf.tmp
> make[1]: *** [bootstrapping.conf] Error 139
> make: *** [stage1] Error 2
> 
> 
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