ghc 7.10.1 hard lock on exit with shake, OS X 10.10

[Austin Seipp]

Perhaps #10317 is related?

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10317

You might try building with the latest ghc-7.10 branch.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Carter Schonwald
> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>> could you share a minimal program that reproduces the problem?
>
> That's the thing, it's a thousand line shakefile that builds a 100k
> line program, and it's happening only rarely now.  Since it happens so
> rarely it seems really difficult to prune away bits to see if it still
> happens.  I suppose since the building is all just running commands,
> the source it's building doesn't matter, but since it's a build, it
> runs a different sequence of commands every time.  I suppose I could
> "stub out" the program by replacing ghc with a shell script that
> sleeps and touches the output files, but it feels like I could spend
> days on it because there are tons of little details.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's related to the threaded runtime, because it
> doesn't happen without -threaded.  I could try with -debug, but that
> probably turns off -threaded too, so no more problem.  Shake is
> heavily threaded and nondeterministic.  I haven't seen other shake
> users report it though.
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