#8790: rts: unrust 'libbfd' debug symbols parser ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: slyfox | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- For quite a long while you might have seen such ./configure output: {{{ checking bfd.h usability... yes checking bfd.h presence... yes checking for bfd.h... yes ... checking for bfd_uncompress_section_contents in -lbfd... no }}} which means very interesting debug bit in rts (+RTS -Di) is disabled. It's because most of functions in bfd.h are actually macros, thus test fails: config.log: {{{ configure:9545: checking for bfd_uncompress_section_contents in -lbfd configure:9570: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -march=corei7-avx -mtune=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -fdiagnostics-show-option -frecord-gcc- switches -ggdb3 -march=corei7-avx -march=corei7-avx -m tune=corei7-avx -mtune=corei7-avx -ggdb3 -fno-stack-protector -Wa,-- noexecstack -Wa,--noexecstack -fno-stack-protector -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as- needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--r educe-memory-overheads conftest.c -lbfd -liberty >&5 /tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-7.6.3-r1/temp/ccCEvDZ7.o: In function `main': /tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-7.6.3-r1/work/ghc-7.6.3/conftest.c:99: undefined reference to `bfd_uncompress_section_contents' }}} We don't use that function anyways, thus i've picked '''bfd_init'''. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8790 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler