ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 2

Alex Dunlap alexander.dunlap at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 16:35:00 EST 2009


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:53:07PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 6.12.1:
> 
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-rc2/
> 
> As well as the source tarball:
>     ghc-6.12.0.20091121-src.tar.bz2
> there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. For the Linux binary
> distributions, the "linux-n" tarballs are recommended over the "linux"
> tarballs.
> 
> 
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
> 
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I installed this and tried to build the network package. Here's what happened:

---- SNIP ----
$ ~/usr/bin/ghc --make Setup.hs 
Linking Setup ...
$ ./Setup configure
Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated.
Configuring network-2.2.1.5...
Setup: fd:5: hGetContents: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
*** glibc detected *** ./Setup: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x09d33050 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6b6c1)[0xb76446c1]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6cf18)[0xb7645f18]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0xb7648f8d]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x1829c)[0xb75f129c]
/lib/libc.so.6(iconv_close+0x1c)[0xb75f07ec]
./Setup[0x821f6b9]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-082be000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00 1603782    /home/alex/src/network-2.2.1.5/Setup
082be000-082ed000 rwxp 00275000 fe:00 1603782    /home/alex/src/network-2.2.1.5/Setup
082ed000-082f0000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
09cd1000-09d5c000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
b6f00000-b6f21000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b6f21000-b7000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 
b70c8000-b70e5000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 385336     /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b70e5000-b70e6000 rwxp 0001c000 08:03 385336     /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7100000-b7300000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b73bf000-b75bf000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 396531     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
b75bf000-b75c0000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b75c0000-b75d5000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262160     /lib/libpthread-2.11.so
b75d5000-b75d6000 r-xp 00014000 08:03 262160     /lib/libpthread-2.11.so
b75d6000-b75d7000 rwxp 00015000 08:03 262160     /lib/libpthread-2.11.so
b75d7000-b75d9000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b75d9000-b7719000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262169     /lib/libc-2.11.so
b7719000-b771b000 r-xp 00140000 08:03 262169     /lib/libc-2.11.so
b771b000-b771c000 rwxp 00142000 08:03 262169     /lib/libc-2.11.so
b771c000-b771f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b771f000-b7743000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262184     /lib/libm-2.11.so
b7743000-b7744000 r-xp 00023000 08:03 262184     /lib/libm-2.11.so
b7744000-b7745000 rwxp 00024000 08:03 262184     /lib/libm-2.11.so
b7745000-b7746000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b7746000-b7790000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 388239     /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.5.0
b7790000-b7793000 rwxp 00049000 08:03 388239     /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.5.0
b7793000-b7795000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262188     /lib/libdl-2.11.so
b7795000-b7796000 r-xp 00001000 08:03 262188     /lib/libdl-2.11.so
b7796000-b7797000 rwxp 00002000 08:03 262188     /lib/libdl-2.11.so
b7797000-b7799000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262274     /lib/libutil-2.11.so
b7799000-b779a000 r-xp 00001000 08:03 262274     /lib/libutil-2.11.so
b779a000-b779b000 rwxp 00002000 08:03 262274     /lib/libutil-2.11.so
b779b000-b77a2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262277     /lib/librt-2.11.so
b77a2000-b77a3000 r-xp 00006000 08:03 262277     /lib/librt-2.11.so
b77a3000-b77a4000 rwxp 00007000 08:03 262277     /lib/librt-2.11.so
b77ba000-b77bc000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 184559     /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-32.so
b77bc000-b77bd000 r-xp 00001000 08:03 184559     /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-32.so
b77bd000-b77be000 rwxp 00002000 08:03 184559     /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-32.so
b77be000-b77bf000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
b77bf000-b77c0000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
b77c0000-b77dc000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 262276     /lib/ld-2.11.so
b77dc000-b77dd000 r-xp 0001b000 08:03 262276     /lib/ld-2.11.so
b77dd000-b77de000 rwxp 0001c000 08:03 262276     /lib/ld-2.11.so
bf82d000-bf842000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
Aborted

---- SNIP ----

It works fine with the old GHC, so I assume this is some sort of problem with the new one.

Alex


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