[Haskell-cafe] Problems with split-objs

[Magnus Therning]

On Dec 14, 2007 12:14 AM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 22:48 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > I've followed the instructions at [1] to create a .deb of vty[2].  It
> > seems the helper scripts for Debian passes `--enable-split-obj' when
> > running `./Setup.lhs configure'.  This results in numerous multiple
> > definitions of stuff.  I have a few questions regarding this...
>
> I find this is usually due to a bad combination of ghc and gcc. eg
> ghc-6.6.x and gcc-4.2 have this problem on a couple arches.
>
> What versions of stuff are you using?

That explains it then.  I'm on Debian Sid, which means I currently
have ghc 6.6.1 and gcc 4.2.3 (prerelease).  Bugger!

/M