[Haskell] Linking very resource intensive with GHC 6.12.1 on Ubuntu 10.04

[Svein Ove Aas]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam at gmail.com> wrote:
> After upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04, my manually-installed (not
> the distribution package) GHC 6.12.1 has difficulty linking.
>
> This is the first time I've tried compiling something since the
> upgrade. Once cabal gets to Linking, I see a lot of swapping and
> increased load numbers on my system with 700MB memory and nothing much
> running, and even after leaving the linker running for 10 minutes, the
> software doesn't stop.
>
> Anybody else seen this?
>
Sorry. But to help figure out what's going on, could you try:

- Running cabal install with -v so we see the command lines
- Linking hello, world with ghc --make
- Linking hello, world with ghc --make -dynamic

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