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

[Jason Dagit]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Svante Signell <svante.signell at telia.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

I would try the ghc users mailing list[1] or the Debian GNU/Hurd lists[2]
(maybe other programs have similar failures on that platform?).  The last
time I tried Debian Hurd was circa 2003 and lots of things were in flux and
broken.  So, I have a hunch you're on your own to some extent.  Have you
tried debugging tools like strace?

Good luck!
Jason

[1] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users>[2]
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-contact

<http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-contact>
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