#7056: GHCi loadArchive "libiconv.a":failed Unknown PEi386 section name `.drectve' ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: songpp | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.6.2 Component: GHCi | Version: 7.4.1 Resolution: | Keywords: loadArchive Unknown PEi386 Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: GHCi | Difficulty: Unknown crash | Blocked By: 3658 Test Case: | Related Tickets: #2487, #7103 Blocking: | ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Comment (by schyler): May be related. Building GHC with gcc 4.8.0 and ghc 7.6.3 on Windows 8 yields: {{{ Loading package integer-gmp ... ghc-stage2.exe: Unknown PEi386 section name `.dr ectve' (while processing: C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Kyle\ghc\libraries \integer-gmp\ dist-install\build\libHSinteger-gmp-0.5.1.0.a) ghc-stage2.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130711 for i386-unknown-mingw32): loadArchive "C:\\MinGW\\msys\\1.0\\home\\Kyle\\ghc\\libraries\\integer-g mp\\dist-install\\build\\libHSinteger-gmp-0.5.1.0.a": failed Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug make[1]: *** [libraries/vector/dist- install/build/Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Mona dic.o] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7056#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler