[Haskell-cafe] Panic loading network on windows (GHC 7.6.1)

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:31:49 +0200, JP Moresmau <jpmoresmau at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hello, I've installed Cabal and cabal-install 1.16 (which required
> network) on a new GHC 7.6.1 install and everything went well, except
> now when building a package requiring network I get:
>
> Loading package network-2.4.0.1 ... ghc.exe: Unknown PEi386 section name  
> `.idata
> $4' (while processing: c:/ghc/ghc-7.6.1/mingw/lib\libws2_32.a)
> ghc.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>   (GHC version 7.6.1 for i386-unknown-mingw32):
>         loadArchive "c:/ghc/ghc-7.6.1/mingw/lib\\libws2_32.a": failed

It's a GHC bug and will be solved in GHC 7.6.2, according to:
   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7103

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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