I was using macports' binary ghc-6.8.2 so I also suspect this is the same as #2380. Thankfully Christian Maeder's powerpc build is working for me. I have rebuilt all my software and the packages they depend on. I will update the macports error to point at the ghc trac error. The compilation times for ghc itself are quote long on my hardware, as I learned when trying and failing to get the early 6.8.x series to work on powerpc. Thus I won't be stepping up to do the same for ghc-6.10.1 unless I find myself with a much less bust life. PS: I must say that ghc-6.10.1 appears to run much faster than ghc-6.8.3 on my G4 laptop. Thanks :) -- Chris Simon Marlow wrote:
Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
/private/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc -H32m -O -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -optc-O2 -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -Ism -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts -static -I/opt/local/include -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I../libffi/build/include -I. -dcmm-lint -c Apply.cmm -o Apply.o
make[1]: *** [Apply.o] Segmentation fault
make: *** [stage1] Error 2
Does anyone have a clue how to proceed?
Perhaps this is the same as
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2380
but others have managed to compile GHC on PPC/OSX.
In general we don't have anyone actively working on fixing bugs in the PPC port at the moment, I'd love it if someone could step up and help us keep this platform fully-supported. Here are the current PPC-specific bugs:
Cheers, Simon