On 18 May 2012 22:03, Joe Buehler wrote:

Duncan Coutts wrote:

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I'm very surprised it's not working on some version of Red Hat. This has worked on many varieties of linux for many years. You don't have some non-standard ar installed do you? What version of gnu binutils? (ar -V)

No, it's the RHES ar program.

# rpm -qf /usr/bin/ar binutils-2.14.90.0.4-42

A CentOS 6 box works fine, so this may be a bug in RHES 3.

The installed binutils is the latest for RHES 3.  Locally compiled versions of binutils have the same bug, so perhaps there is a bug elsewhere in the system.  For example, I do not have the very latest C library.

As a local workaround you can of course hack your Cabal library sources and reinstall the lib. Until we work out what's going on I'm a bit reluctant to chage the upstream version since that has been tested on so many systems (Linuxes, BSDs, other unixes). Duncan