[Haskell-cafe] Problems porting ghc6-6.10.1 to GNU/Hurd using 6.8.2

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 09:43 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to upgrade Debian GNU/Hurd ghc6.8.2 to 6.10.1 (and
> further from there, due to requirements of ghc and haddock versions),
> and get stuck on configuring the random-1.0.0.1 library in stage1. I
> have tried versions of ghc6 are 6.10.1+dfsg1-1 to 6.10.1+dfsg1-5 (the
> latest not requiring ghc6.10 due to haddock 2.4.2). The commands are
> shown below: (added the -verbose=3 parameter)
...
> Output:
> =======
> Creating dist (and its parents)
> (".../ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc",["--numeric-version"])
> .../ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc is version
> 6.10.1
> (".../utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg",["--version"])
> .../utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg
> is version 6.10.1
> (".../ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc",["--supported-languages"])
> Reading installed packages...
> (".../utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg",["dump","--global"])
> 
> Hangs here!
> 
> Running manually works OK!!
> $pwd/utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg --global-conf $pwd/inplace-datadir/./package.conf "dump" "--global"
> 
> Gives a lot of output here...
> 
> Below is the ghc-pkg script:
> 
> cat $pwd/utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg
> PKGCONF=$pwd/inplace-datadir/./package.conf
> exec $pwd/utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/libexec/ghc-pkg --global-conf $PKGCONF ${1+"$@"}
> 
> I've tried changing the shell from dash to bash but no changes. I also
> tried to escape some of the variables in the gkc-pkg shell script but
> without any luck.
> 
> Anybody can help me here??

Any pointers, or ideas how to make some progress. Other mailing lists?
It hangs at the same place independent of settings. like splitobjs,
profile or not, etc.