Re: ghc 4.02 compilation failure (linux i386 glibc)

[Giuliano P Procida]

Hi.

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:29:01AM +1000, Kevin Glynn wrote:
> What's the latest on this problem?  Since I've hit it too :-( Is it
> possible to build ghc with egcs and glibc2.1 ??  I'm trying to build
> from source using the pre-built ghc-4.02 linux binaries.

The latest is that it is still a problem. However, it may have been a
miscompiled glibc (this is the libc6-2.1.1-7 Debian build), more news
tomorrow when I find the relevant mail messages. There have been some
other reports of IO-related SEGVs, see [1].

Giuliano.
[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/llibc6.html