On 18 May 2012 22:03, Joe Buehler <as...@cox.net> wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > >> I'm very surprised it's not working on some version of Red Hat. This >> has worked on many varieties of linux for many years. You don't have >> some non-standard ar installed do you? What version of gnu binutils? >> (ar -V) > > No, it's the RHES ar program. > > # rpm -qf /usr/bin/ar > binutils-2.14.90.0.4-42 > > A CentOS 6 box works fine, so this may be a bug in RHES 3. > > The installed binutils is the latest for RHES 3. Locally compiled > versions of binutils have the same bug, so perhaps there is a bug > elsewhere in the system. For example, I do not have the very latest C > library.
As a local workaround you can of course hack your Cabal library sources and reinstall the lib. Until we work out what's going on I'm a bit reluctant to chage the upstream version since that has been tested on so many systems (Linuxes, BSDs, other unixes). Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
