#9421: magic number mismatch when installing 32bit on 64bit machine -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: MikolajKonarski | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: Installing Difficulty: Unknown | GHC failed Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This is basically the same problem as reported here: https://www.mail-archive.com/ghc-devs@haskell.org/msg04439.html I have empty .cabal and .ghc, no ghc in paths and I have old Ubuntu LTS (12.04.4) so I was able to install ia32-libs and a few other libs I've downloaded http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.3/ghc-7.8.3-i386-unknown-linux- deb7.tar.xz configured, and make install says: {{{ Installing library in /mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3/haskell98-2.0.0.3 "utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal-bindist" copy libraries/haskell2010 dist-install "strip" '' '/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc' '/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3' '/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' 'v p dyn' Installing library in /mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3/haskell2010-1.1.2.0 "/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3/bin/ghc-pkg" --force --global-package-db "/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3/package.conf.d" update rts/dist/package.conf.install Reading package info from "rts/dist/package.conf.install" ... done. "utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal-bindist" register libraries/ghc-prim dist-install "/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3/bin/ghc" "/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3/bin/ghc-pkg" "/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3" '' '/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc' '/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/lib/ghc-7.8.3' '/mikolaj/env/7.8.3i386/local/src/ghc/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO ghc-cabal: Bad interface file: dist-install/build/GHC/CString.hi magic number mismatch: old/corrupt interface file? (wanted 33214052, got 129742) make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 2 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9421 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler