[Haskell] strange ghc behaviour?

[Christopher Brown]

Hi,

I use ghc 6.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.5 and recently I have been getting  
some very strange errors. It has happened when I have been trying to  
compile DrIFT, and also today when I was compiling Haddock. The  
errors seem to change each time, and they always complain about an  
undefined symbol.

For example, when compiling Haddock I got:

/tmp/ghc24547.s:22969:Invalid mnemonic 'mtcts'
/tmp/ghc24547.s:103127:Invalid mnemonic 'mtcur'
/tmp/ghc24547.s:103430:Invalid mnemonic 'mtcur'
/tmp/ghc24547.s:108482:Invalid mnemonic 'mtcts'

I flushed out /tmp and ran make again, and this time I get:

/tmp/ghc24804.s:unknown:Undefined local symbol L___DISCARE__$stub
make[3]: *** [HsSyn.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 1

Eventually Haddock will compile if I keep typing make every time ghc  
fails, but is there any reason why ghc is doing this? and how can I  
correct it?

Thanks for your help.

Chris Brown.



Christopher Brown
Ph.D. Student University of Kent. UK.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/rpg/cmb21/index.html