Hi Conal,
The Hackage bug you quoted is related to this GHC ticket:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4326
the root cause is a size limitation in the OS X linker triggered when
libraries get particularly large. We worked around it (actually Ian
did) in GHC by adding support to the GHCi linker to load .a files.
What's still missing (I presume) is something in Cabal to treat this
error as non-fatal, and back off to using .a files instead. Or perhaps
using .a files should be the default.
Cheers,
Simon
On 26/03/2011 16:59, Conal Elliott wrote:
I see that this this trac item has no milestone and an "unknown"
duration. Has this problem (incompatibility of large libraries and ghci
on the Mac) slipped through the cracks? Is it thought to be unimportant?
For me, not being able to count on ghci is a huge detriment. Thanks,
- Conal
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Hackage <cvs-...@haskell.org
<mailto:cvs-...@haskell.org>> wrote:
#791: Large libraries not installable on OS X
-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
Reporter: batterseapower | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: Mac OS |
-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
Changes (by conal):
* cc: conal (added)
Comment:
I just ran into this same issue while 'cabal install'ing highlighting-
kate-0.2.9 with 32-bit ghc 7.0.2 on Mac OS 10.6.6. Is there an
up-to-date
recommendation for this problem?
{{{
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/conal/cabal/highlighting-kate-0.2.9
bash-3.2$ cabal install
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring highlighting-kate-0.2.9...
Preprocessing library highlighting-kate-0.2.9...
Preprocessing executables for highlighting-kate-0.2.9...
Building highlighting-kate-0.2.9...
[ 1 of 111] Compiling Paths_highlighting_kate (
dist/build/autogen/Paths_highlighting_kate.hs,
dist/build/Paths_highlighting_kate.o )
...
[111 of 111] Compiling Text.Highlighting.Kate (
Text/Highlighting/Kate.hs,
dist/build/Text/Highlighting/Kate.o )
ld: scattered reloc r_address too large
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
highlighting-kate-0.2.9 failed during the building phase. The
exception
was:
ExitFailure 1
bash-3.2$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.2
bash-3.2$ uname -a
Darwin Conals-Mac.local 10.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0: Wed
Nov 10
18:13:17 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.26~3/RELEASE_I386 i386
}}}
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