Hi,
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Roman Cheplyaka
searching for ld in path. found ld at /usr/bin/ld ("/home/feuerbach/bin/gen-iface",["-c","/tmp/17368.c","-o","/tmp/17368.o"]) ("/usr/bin/ld",["-x","-r","/tmp/17368.o","-o","/tmp/17369.o"]) /usr/bin/ld returned ExitFailure 1 with error message: /tmp/17368.o: file not recognized: File truncated Setup: /tmp/17369.o: does not exist
I looked into this - this is caused by configureLd' in Distribution.Simple.GHC. This function tries to determine whether ld supports the -x flag by compiling a short C program ("int foo() {}") with ghc (apparently ghc supports .c files as input). Since ghc just invokes gcc when given .c files, and you're trying to mimic ghc, I think it makes sense to support this behaviour. If you think that this is ugly, you can put all such hacky code into a separate driver program, and leave your analyser unmodified. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments