George Colpitts
Thanks Ben, none of this is obvious to me :) I just read the doc which doesn't mention distclean or rebuild which I have never had to do on earlier source distributions Hi George!
Sorry for the poor choice of words, indeed the tracking down issue like this is anything but obvious; thanks for your time identifying this one! For the record, `make distclean` is a more thorough variant of `make clean`; distclean'ing a fresh source distribution should never be necessary, although it is often a good first step just to make sure things are in a known state.
. I did a make distclean, then a configure, then a make -j5 and got the same error. by rebuild do you mean do it again starting from scratch?
I did google the error, i.e. 'Haskell "_stg_sel_17_upd_info" ' and found that a few people have encountered this this month. Most importantly it led me to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11155#comment:10 :
Ahh, great find! Yes, it sounds like this issue is still not resolved although the fact that it now only appears to occur on OS X boxen is rather odd. Let's continue this discussion on the ticket. Cheers, - Ben