Thanks! The clean rebuild worked. Di, Yu 1.11 ----- Original Message ---- From: Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> To: Yu Di <diyu60607@yahoo.com>; Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Cc: "glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org" <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:18:39 AM Subject: RE: problem with GHC installaion on x86_64 <!-- _filtered {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered {margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.Section1 {} --> This is a fixed bug http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2011 However I hadn’t realised that it’s in 6.8.2; I thought we’d fixed it prior to the 6.8.2 release. The workaround is simple: do a “make clean”. (That’s why our tests didn’t pick it up; they all start from clean.) Simon From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Yu Di Sent: 09 January 2008 21:47 To: Bryan O'Sullivan Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: Re: problem with GHC installaion on x86_64 Hi, I found that the x86_64 binary package for version 6.4.1 can be installed successfully on my machine (the x86_64 builds for higher versions either require libreadline.so.5 or have problems with timer_create), and then I tried to use that to compile 6.8.2 from source, but I got the following problem: make[2]: Entering directory `.../ghc-6.8.2/libraries/base' ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -package-name base-3.0.1.0 -hide-all-packages -split-objs -i -idist/build/autogen -idist/build -i. -Idist/build -Iinclude -#include "HsBase.h" -odir dist/build -hidir dist/build -stubdir dist/build -package rts-1.0 -O -fglasgow-exts -package-name base -XCPP -idist/build -H16m -O -O -Rghc-timing -fgenerics -c Control/Concurrent.hs -o dist/build/Control/Concurrent.o -ohi dist/build/Control/Concurrent.hi ghc-6.8.2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 6.8.2 for x86_64-unknown-linux): lookupVers1 base:GHC.Prim sym{tc} Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug <<ghc: 107290456 bytes, 19 GCs, 3592250/7424504 avg/max bytes residency (3 samples), 20M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.17 MUT (0.23 elapsed), 0.06 GC (0.07 elapsed) :ghc>> What is this problem? (I can use 6.4.1 but my programs were last developed with 6.8.1 and contains some function calls that are added later, so I would prefer to use 6.8.1 and above) Thanks, Di, Yu 1.9 ----- Original Message ---- From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> To: Yu Di <diyu60607@yahoo.com> Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 10:07:16 PM Subject: Re: problem with GHC installaion on x86_64 Yu Di wrote:

Hi, I am trying to use ghc on a 64-bit machine (uname -a shows: Linux

... 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 16:36:54 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64

x86_64 GNU/Linux),

Since you're using RHEL4, you could try grabbing a GHC source RPM for Fedora and building that. It might take a bit of tweaking, but probably very little. (For instructions on building binary RPMs from source, Google around.) <b Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs