#15396: -staticlib is broken on GHC 8.4.3 on Linux under certain conditions -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: RyanGlScott | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.6.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.4.3 (Linking) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: Type of failure: Compile-time | Unknown/Multiple crash or panic | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by angerman):
Each data section is 2 byte aligned. If it would end on an odd offset, a newline ('\n', 0x0A) is used as filler. (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_%28Unix%29 wikipedia:ar (Unix)])
That's pretty much what the `Ar` module fails to account for. For some reason `libHSbase-4.11.1.0.a` ends up having odd byte long object files. As such parsing the archive falls apart. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15396#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler