Re: Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

On 12/19/08, Simon Marlow wrote:

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lupus:~/ghc-6.8.3% ghc-6.8.3 -v dyld: relocation error (external relocation for symbol _pthread_mutex_unlock in ghc-6.8.3 relocation entry 0 displacement too large)Trace/BPT trap

Failure! ... or is it?

I'd guess that the size of the binary has caused some kind of overflow of a short relocation field. Any experts in MacOS linking around?

You might want to try the testsuite with stage1 and see whether the failure shows up anywhere else.

Cheers, Simon

Thanks, I will try that and see what I can find out. regards, Uwe