Re: [Hackage] #791: Large libraries not installable on OS X

Hi Conal, The Hackage bug you quoted is related to this GHC ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4326 the root cause is a size limitation in the OS X linker triggered when libraries get particularly large. We worked around it (actually Ian did) in GHC by adding support to the GHCi linker to load .a files. What's still missing (I presume) is something in Cabal to treat this error as non-fatal, and back off to using .a files instead. Or perhaps using .a files should be the default. Cheers, Simon On 26/03/2011 16:59, Conal Elliott wrote:

I see that this this trac item has no milestone and an "unknown" duration. Has this problem (incompatibility of large libraries and ghci on the Mac) slipped through the cracks? Is it thought to be unimportant? For me, not being able to count on ghci is a huge detriment. Thanks,

- Conal

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Hackage mailto:cvs-ghc@haskell.org> wrote:

#791: Large libraries not installable on OS X -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: batterseapower | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: Mac OS | -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Changes (by conal):

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Comment:

I just ran into this same issue while 'cabal install'ing highlighting- kate-0.2.9 with 32-bit ghc 7.0.2 on Mac OS 10.6.6. Is there an up-to-date recommendation for this problem? {{{ bash-3.2$ pwd /Users/conal/cabal/highlighting-kate-0.2.9 bash-3.2$ cabal install Resolving dependencies... Configuring highlighting-kate-0.2.9... Preprocessing library highlighting-kate-0.2.9... Preprocessing executables for highlighting-kate-0.2.9... Building highlighting-kate-0.2.9... [ 1 of 111] Compiling Paths_highlighting_kate ( dist/build/autogen/Paths_highlighting_kate.hs, dist/build/Paths_highlighting_kate.o ) ... [111 of 111] Compiling Text.Highlighting.Kate ( Text/Highlighting/Kate.hs, dist/build/Text/Highlighting/Kate.o ) ld: scattered reloc r_address too large cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: highlighting-kate-0.2.9 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 bash-3.2$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.2 bash-3.2$ uname -a Darwin Conals-Mac.local 10.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0: Wed Nov 10 18:13:17 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.26~3/RELEASE_I386 i386 }}}

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