I've just download the latest version of GHC from the CVS archives and I am having quite some difficulty building it on a linux machine (Debian distro) The configure script decided that my machine was a i386-unknown-linux. Here is the output where the error occurs. ....(about a page and a half of _split files) lit Text/Read/Lex_split Text/Regex_split Text/Regex/Posix_split Text/Show_split Text/Show/Functions_split -name '*.p_o') | xargs ar q libHSbase_p.a xargs: ar: terminated by signal 9 make[3]: *** [libHSbase_p.a] Error 125 make[3]: *** Deleting file `libHSbase_p.a' make[2]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/semantix/cvsmods/fptools/libraries' make: *** [build] Error 1 I've noticed that 'ar' was consuming an enormous amount of memory (more than the paltry 128 of my machine), so my computer trashed quite a bit at this point, as it swapped to and from the swap drive. Could this error be due to running out of memory? Sean