#13786: GHC panic on Mac OS X with "cabal repl" / "stack repl" on GHC 8.0.2 and 7.8.3 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ppelleti | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 8.0.2 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: x86_64 | Type of failure: Compile-time (amd64) | crash or panic Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Using [https://github.com/ppelleti/hs-mercury-api this package], I tried doing "stack repl" with GHC 8.0.2: {{{ whiteandnerdy:hs-mercury-api ppelleti$ stack repl The following GHC options are incompatible with GHCi and have not been passed to it: -threaded * * * * * * * * The main module to load is ambiguous. Candidates are: 1. Package `mercury-api' component exe:tmr-firmware with main-is file: /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr- firmware.hs 2. Package `mercury-api' component exe:tmr-gpio with main-is file: /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr-gpio.hs 3. Package `mercury-api' component exe:tmr-lock with main-is file: /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr-lock.hs 4. Package `mercury-api' component exe:tmr-params with main-is file: /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr-params.hs 5. Package `mercury-api' component exe:tmr-read with main-is file: /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr-read.hs 6. Package `mercury-api' component exe:tmr-write with main-is file: /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr-write.hs You can specify which one to pick by: * Specifying targets to stack ghci e.g. stack ghci mercury-api:exe:tmr- firmware * Specifying what the main is e.g. stack ghci --main-is mercury-api:exe :tmr-firmware * Choosing from the candidate above [1..6] * * * * * * * * Specify main module to use (press enter to load none): 4 Loading main module from cadidate 4, --main-is /Users/ppelleti/programming/haskell/hs-mercury-api/examples/tmr-params.hs Configuring GHCi with the following packages: mercury-api GHCi, version 8.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 8.0.2 for x86_64-apple-darwin): Loading temp shared object failed: dlopen(/var/folders/d1/v9ptqpx12mdcxj77509440rc0000gn/T/ghc91859_0/libghc_5.dylib, 5): Symbol not found: _TMR_SR_cmdStopReading Referenced from: /var/folders/d1/v9ptqpx12mdcxj77509440rc0000gn/T/ghc91859_0/libghc_5.dylib Expected in: flat namespace in /var/folders/d1/v9ptqpx12mdcxj77509440rc0000gn/T/ghc91859_0/libghc_5.dylib Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} This bug appears to have been around a while, because it also happens with GHC 7.8.3: {{{ whiteandnerdy:hs-mercury-api ppelleti$ cabal repl Preprocessing library mercury-api-0.1.0.0... GHCi, version 7.8.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Loading package array-0.5.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package deepseq-1.3.0.2 ... linking ... done. Loading package bytestring-0.10.4.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package containers-0.5.5.1 ... linking ... done. Loading package binary-0.7.1.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package text-1.2.2.1 ... linking ... done. Loading package hashable-1.2.6.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package unordered-containers-0.2.8.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package clock-0.7.2 ... linking ... done. Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.6 ... linking ... done. Loading package time-1.4.2 ... linking ... done. Loading package unix-2.7.0.1 ... linking ... done. Loading package ansi-terminal-0.6.2.3 ... linking ... done. Loading object (static) dist/build/cbits/api/tmr_strerror.o ... done Loading object (static) dist/build/cbits/api/tmr_param.o ... done Loading object (static) dist/build/cbits/api/hex_bytes.o ... done Loading object (static) dist/build/cbits/api/tm_reader.o ... ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.8.3 for x86_64-apple-darwin): Loading temp shared object failed: dlopen(/var/folders/d1/v9ptqpx12mdcxj77509440rc0000gn/T/ghc91576_0/ghc91576_4.dylib, 9): Symbol not found: _TMR_SR_SerialTransportNativeInit Referenced from: /var/folders/d1/v9ptqpx12mdcxj77509440rc0000gn/T/ghc91576_0/ghc91576_4.dylib Expected in: flat namespace in /var/folders/d1/v9ptqpx12mdcxj77509440rc0000gn/T/ghc91576_0/ghc91576_4.dylib Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} I'm using Mac OS X 10.9.5: {{{ whiteandnerdy:hs-mercury-api ppelleti$ uname -a Darwin whiteandnerdy.lan 13.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Mon Jan 11 18:17:34 PST 2016; root:xnu-2422.115.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13786 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler