GHC 6.4.1 crash on Windows XP
A freshly installed GHC 6.4.1 on my colleague's PC crashes when I try to build a package: runhaskell Setup.hs build The effect is easily reproduceable (it shows up on *any* package that I try to build). Does anyone have any idea of what might be wrong here? Cyril ___ For the record, the information given by Windows at the point of crash: Exception Information Code: 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x0 Record: 0x0 Address: 0x0 System Information Windows NT 5.1 Build: 2600 Module 1 ghc.exe Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x0 Checksum: 0x0088d2bd Time Stamp: 0x433058b8 (The IP and SP already point somewhere inside Dr. Watson, as far as I can see, so I don't think the registers and stack contents are of any use at this point.)
Cyril Schmidt wrote:
A freshly installed GHC 6.4.1 on my colleague's PC crashes when I try to build a package:
runhaskell Setup.hs build
The effect is easily reproduceable (it shows up on *any* package that I try to build).
Does anyone have any idea of what might be wrong here?
Does it always crash in the same way? Can you fire up GHCi and perform a small evaluation or two? Can you compile small programs, do they run? Please send us the complete output from commands that crash: eg. add -v to the build command above. Cheers, Simon
Simon Marlow wrote:
Does it always crash in the same way?
Yes, as far as I can see. Unfortunately, most of the context is already lost when the error message pops up. The error code is always the same.
Can you fire up GHCi and perform a small evaluation or two?
Yes, this works just fine.
Can you compile small programs, do they run?
Also works fine.
Please send us the complete output from commands that crash: eg. add -v to the build command above.
I attach the stderr and stdout from runhaskell -v5 Setup.hs build I could also send the sources of the package being compiled, but I do not think they are relevant here: it crashes on *any* package. BTW, I had installed Cabal-1-1.3, but it did not help, so I reverted to the version of Cabal that came with the compiler. It is strange that the same version of GHC works fine on my PC and breaks on that of my colleague. To the best of my knowledge, these two PCs are not different from each other in any special way. I did have some strange crashes on my PC as well, but these were cured by upgrading from 6.4 to 6.4.1. Cheers, Cyril
Cyril Schmidt wrote:
A freshly installed GHC 6.4.1 on my colleague's PC crashes when I try to build a package:
runhaskell Setup.hs build
The effect is easily reproduceable (it shows up on *any* package that I try to build).
Does anyone have any idea of what might be wrong here?
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