27 Feb
2007
27 Feb
'07
11:29 p.m.
On 2/27/07, Seth Gordon
Thanks. I incorporated these changes, and it cranks longer now before failing. But still fails, now with a seg fault. According to conventional wisdom, when gcc segfaults on a big compilation job (e.g., the Linux kernel), it could be a sign of a
Thomas Hartman wrote: transient memory error; gcc exercises the RAM so much that the error rate on a typical computer's memory chips can have a practical effect.
I believe that you're probably correct in this case: I was able to get ghc 6.6 + optional packages built on a linode virtual host (guessing from the original poster's prompt) but only after expanding the amount of memory available. -- Paul