I have a suspicion that the segmentation faults are related to fork errors, which appear in logs from time to time. After a few builds fork() errors become very frequent, and segfaults seem to occur more often. I just ran the build (validate.sh) in a loop, and after a while got a bunch of segfaults in Makefile rules as basic as rm invocations in the initial "make clean", e.g.:
"rm" -rf driver/split/dist driver/split/ghc.mk:19: recipe for target 'clean_driver/split_dist' failed make[1]: *** [clean_driver/split_dist] Segmentation fault Makefile:94: recipe for target 'maintainer-clean' failed Closing and reopening the msys2 console seems to help - for some time. On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Ray Donnelly <mingw.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Gintautas Miliauskas > <gintautas.miliaus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +ghc-devs > > > > Hi Ray, > > > > thanks for the feedback. ghc-stage1 is a native application, it is built > > using a host ghc and a mingw gcc bundled with the ghc distribution (in > order > > to keep Windows builds more predictable). The thing is, the same builds > > (using make) that were stable on cygwin seem to be crashing on msys2, > even > > though the (bundled) gcc used for the build is the same. It could be that > > msys2 is triggering a bug in ghc somehow, but it could be something > going on > > in msys2 itself. > > > > The tricky part is that the crashes are rare, one in thousands of ghc > > invocations within a make build, and I'm having trouble pinning one down > to > > investigate. I'll try some basic tracing first, but ideas for something > more > > sophisticated would be very helpful. > > Ah, ok. I skim read your initial email and applied totally incorrect > weighting to the "not very hard to reproduce" bit, apologies! > > It *should* be possible to setup post-mortem debugging using either Qt > Creator (Tools->Options->Debugger, tick "Use Qt Creator for > post-mortem debugging") or Dr. Mingw > (https://github.com/jrfonseca/drmingw). I briefly tested both options: > > Qt Creator: It seems there's a bug in its handling of the > -wincrashevent command line which I've just added a note about to the > MINGW-packages todo list since I'd find this feature more than very > useful: > https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/TODO.md > > Dr Mingw: Launching the crashing executable from Windows Explorer, it > launches it and gives me useful information. > > Unfortunately, regardless of the debugger used, when invoking the > crashing executable from the mintty commandline, something inhibits > all post mortem debugging. I will ask the mingw-w64 guys if they know > what this is. I guess intrusive dialogs would be annoying, but I'd > like an env. var override for that I think. > > There is another possibility, and that's that bash is crashing, which > is an MSYS2 program. We do have a way of hooking into post-mortem > debugging there since Cygwin provided a way and we improved it. If you > check your msys2_shell.bat you'll see: > rem set > MSYS=error_start:%WD%../../mingw64/bin/qtcreator.exe|-debug|<process-id> > > If you remove the rem and make sure the path is correct (it may have > rotted some since I last used it) then hopefully you'll get something > useful. To be really useful, you should rebuild two packages, > MSYS2-packages/{msys2-runtime,bash}/PKGBUILD with > options=('debug' '!strip') > and then install them. > > Finally, can anyone else confirm the problem? > > There may be some edge cases when e.g. PATH is around 1024 characters, > I've seen some hardcoded limits in the msys2-runtime (nee Cygwin) > code base for things like that. I'd advise cutting your Windows PATH > down to just the essentials. > > Cheers, > > Ray. > > > > > A PKGBUILD for ghc should be feasible, although the bootstrapping is a > bit > > tricky (some Haskell tools need to be preinstalled). I'm not sure how > useful > > it would be since for Windows there is already a nicely packaged native > > Haskell Platform installer. > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Ray Donnelly <mingw.andr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Gintautas Miliauskas > >> <gintautas.miliaus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I have been working on building GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, on > >> > Windows using msys2 [1]. We have been having some strange trouble with > >> > ghc > >> > segfaulting during the bootstrapping process (i.e., during make). The > >> > crashes are not very hard to reproduce, but they are not predictable > >> > either. > >> > This is almost certainly a bug in ghc itself and not with msys2 > >> > (although > >> > the crashes do not seem to occur in other environments), but I've been > >> > having some trouble pinning it down. > >> > > >> > >> Hi Gintuatas, > >> > >> Great. I spotted that MSYS2 was the recommended env. for GHC on > >> Windows, hopefully it will remain so! > >> > >> > What's a good way to debug such crashes? Is it possible to somehow > stop > >> > the > >> > ghc process when it segfaults and attach gdb, or to dump core somehow > >> > for > >> > later inspection? > >> > > >> > [1] > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows > >> > > >> > Here's one example crash: > >> > > >> > "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1.exe" -hisuf hi -osuf o -hcsuf hc -static > -H32m > >> > -O > >> > -Werror -Wall -H64m -O0 -this-package-key > ghc_4ugNArSu5ba0Z1uHXrbTlU > >> > -hide-all-packages -i -icompiler/basicTypes -icompiler/cmm > >> > -icompiler/codeGen -icompiler/coreSyn -icompiler/deSugar > -icompiler/ghci > >> > -icompiler/hsSyn -icompiler/iface -icompiler/llvmGen -icompiler/main > >> > -icompiler/nativeGen -icompiler/parser -icompiler/prelude > >> > -icompiler/profiling -icompiler/rename -icompiler/simplCore > >> > -icompiler/simplStg -icompiler/specialise -icompiler/stgSyn > >> > -icompiler/stranal -icompiler/typecheck -icompiler/types > >> > -icompiler/utils > >> > -icompiler/vectorise -icompiler/stage2/build > >> > -icompiler/stage2/build/autogen > >> > -Icompiler/stage2/build -Icompiler/stage2/build/autogen -Icompiler/. > >> > -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build > >> > -Icompiler/stage2 -optP-DGHCI -optP-include > >> > -optPcompiler/stage2/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package-key > >> > Win32_43THQMouBnk2wpnouztX1X -package-key array_GX4NwjS8xZkC2ZPtjgwhnz > >> > -package-key base_ESD4aQEEWwsHtYJVc1BwtJ -package-key > >> > binpa_17GphrLqCXt1H1lm4Kse1p -package-key bytes_Kc0PyaputnzDnBdZW0y2Gv > >> > -package-key conta_ChF4XLXB9JmByIycPzerow -package-key > >> > direc_HU5aFxMIQNwGQFzisjuinu -package-key filep_34DFDFT9FVD9pRLLgh8IdQ > >> > -package-key hoopl_IZAd44CED5NCOlpg8p2Kaj -package-key > >> > hpc_1QTsfQSN40FHN9p3mydARY -package-key proce_7ZlAbRkwiRO8qgXx3NNP0G > >> > -package-key templ_F6UJgDtBcDIFWuHmMGEFzy -package-key > >> > time_HGs4JcQCd4wF6U8vJQ5fNH -package-key trans_5jw4w9yTgmZ89ByuixDAKP > >> > -Wall > >> > -fno-warn-name-shadowing -this-package-key ghc -XHaskell2010 > >> > -optc-DTHREADED_RTS -DGHCI_TABLES_NEXT_TO_CODE -DSTAGE=2 -Rghc-timing > >> > -O2 > >> > -fwarn-tabs -O -dcore-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -odir > >> > compiler/stage2/build -hidir compiler/stage2/build -stubdir > >> > compiler/stage2/build -c compiler/basicTypes/UniqSupply.lhs -o > >> > compiler/stage2/build/UniqSupply.o > >> > > >> > compiler/ghc.mk:657: recipe for target > >> > 'compiler/stage2/build/UniqSupply.o' > >> > failed > >> > make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/UniqSupply.o] Segmentation fault > >> > > >> > >> Well, it's pretty much the same story as with Linux. Build the > >> executable and as many libraries as you can with (something like) > >> "-ggdb -O0" then use gdb command line or some IDE of choice. > >> Personally I use Qt Creator (we have packages for this) as it can > >> debug external programs and, even though I don't dislike command > >> lines, I find debugging from them a bit too masochistic. > >> > >> Is ghc-stage1.exe an MSYS2 program or a native one? Which compiler is > >> it built with exactly? > >> > >> What would be involved in creating a PKGBUILD for ghc? We'd love to > >> have one, and it'd certainly make me a lot more inclined to dive in to > >> see what's going on if one existed already. > >> > >> Ray. > >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Gintautas Miliauskas > >> > > >> > > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Msys2-users mailing list > >> > msys2-us...@lists.sourceforge.net > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Gintautas Miliauskas > -- Gintautas Miliauskas
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