#10476: Wrong ar during cross-compilation -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: jakzale | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Build | Version: 7.11 System | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: cross- | Type of failure: Building GHC compiling | failed Architecture: | Blocked By: Unknown/Multiple | Related Tickets: Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- It appears that during cross-compilation, while building stage 1 ghc, the build system uses ar for target architecture instead of ar for build/host architecture. It will cause linking errors on systems where ar for target architecture is incompatible with ar for build/host architecture (sample output attached below). {{{ (...) "rm" -f libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist- boot/build/libHSCabal-1.22.3.0-3tdTeip89ooLNDDdwdA54s.a.contents "rm" -f libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/libHSbin-package- db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a libraries/bin-package-db/dist- boot/build/libHSbin-package-db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a.contents echo libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/GHC/PackageDb.o >> libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/libHSbin-package- db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a.contents "/Users/jakub/src/haskell/PNaCl/gsoc/wrappers/i686-unknown-nacl-ar" q libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/libHSbin-package- db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a @libraries/bin-package-db/dist- boot/build/libHSbin-package-db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a.contents /Users/jakub/src/nacl_sdk/pepper_canary/toolchain/mac_x86_newlib/bin/i686 -nacl-ar: creating libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/libHSbin- package-db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a "rm" -f libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/build/libHSbin-package- db-0.0.0.0-Gk3F1vzzO3g80wuNGtok3x.a.contents (...) ld: archive has no table of contents file '/Users/jakub/src/haskell/PNaCl /ghc-pnacl/libraries/terminfo/dist- boot/build/libHSterminfo-0.4.0.1-7qZwBlx3clR8sTBilJl253.a' for architecture x86_64 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10476 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler