Simon Marlow wrote:
Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for GHC on the x86_64 platform, which seem to indicate some kind of occasional memory/GC problem. I'm probably not going to be able to track this down until after the 6.4 release, but we'll put out a patch as soon as we have one.
Here's an error building ghc-6.4.20050224ghc-6.4.20050224 via Anders'
Debian x86-64 ghc, although it doesn't look like a memory/GC problem to
my untrained eye:
==fptools== make boot - --no-print-directory -r;
in /home/bstrand/src/ghc-6.4.20050224/ghc/lib/compat
------------------------------------------------------------------------
../../../glafp-utils/mkdependC/mkdependC -f .depend -I../../includes
-- -O -- cbits/directory.c cbits/rawSystem.c
/usr/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend -osuf o -H16m -O -H64m -O
-I. -Rghc-timing -I../../../libraries -fglasgow-exts -no-recomp
Compat/Directory.hs Compat/RawSystem.hs Distribution/Compat/ReadP.hs
Distribution/Extension.hs Distribution/GetOpt.hs
Distribution/InstalledPackageInfo.hs Distribution/License.hs
Distribution/Package.hs Distribution/ParseUtils.hs Distribution/Setup.hs
Distribution/Version.hs System/Directory/Internals.hs
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