#7056: GHCi loadArchive "libiconv.a":failed Unknown PEi386 section name `.drectve' -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: songpp | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.6.2 Component: GHCi | Version: 7.4.1 Keywords: loadArchive Unknown PEi386 | Os: Windows Architecture: x86 | Failure: GHCi crash Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: 3658 | Blocking: Related: #2487, #7103 | -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment(by batterseapower): Experienced this with Mingw GCC 4.7.2 on Windows 7 when building GHC: {{{ "inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe" -hisuf hi -osuf o -hcsuf hc -static -H32m -O -package-name vector-0.9.1 -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/vector/. -ilibraries/vector/dist-install/build -ilibraries/vector/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/vector/dist- install/build -Ilibraries/vector/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/vector/include -Ilibraries/vector/internal -optP- DVECTOR_BOUNDS_CHECKS -optP-include -optPlibraries/vector/dist- install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package base-4.7.0.0 -package ghc- prim-0.3.1.0 -package primitive-0.4.0.1 -O2 -XHaskell98 -XCPP -XDeriveDataTypeable -O2 -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -odir libraries/vector/dist-install/build -hidir libraries/vector/dist- install/build -stubdir libraries/vector/dist-install/build -dynamic-too -c libraries/vector/./Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.hs -o libraries/vector/dist-install/build/Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.o -dyno libraries/vector/dist- install/build/Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.dyn_o Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... ghc-stage2.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130413 for i386-unknown-mingw32): loadArchive "C:\\MinGW\\msys\\1.0\\home\\Max\\Programming\\ghc\\libraries\\integer-gmp \\dist-install\\build\\libHSinteger-gmp-0.5.1.0.a": failed Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug ghc-stage2.exe: Unknown PEi386 section name `.drectve' (while processing: C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Max\Programming\ghc\libraries\integer-gmp\dist- install\build\libHSinteger-gmp-0.5.1.0.a) }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7056#comment:7 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler