Karel Gardas wrote: > Simon, > > Simon Marlow wrote: >> zooko wrote: >> >>> Next, karel's solaris box fails to compile, with this error message: >>> >>> http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/karel%20solaris%20Solaris-5.11% >>> 20nevada-79a%20x86_64/builds/43/steps/compile/logs/stdio >>> >>> [ghc] src/OldFastPackedString.o >>> >>> src/OldFastPackedString.hs:98:0: >>> Bad interface file: /usr/local/ghc-2008-05-04/lib/ >>> ghc-6.8.2.20080430/lib/base-3.0.1.0/System/Mem.hi >>> magic number mismatch: old/corrupt interface file? >> We have a suspected bug in GHC that causes this error randomly. Due to the >> lack of a repeatable test case, we haven't made any progress on tracking it >> down. If anyone can repeat it, we'd love to hear about it. > > I've just kept machine working on duplicating this issue whole morning > today. I've completely loaded it and keep it working 100% loaded with > gcc compilation and ghc compilation to make sure it's really heated to > the max level. And I've not been able to duplicate it so my former idea > that this might be from overheating goes into trash. Thanks for your > kind notification. I've also already started to suspect ghc, but indeed, > it's hard to duplicate this issue. > >> There are other things that can cause the above error message: e.g. old or >> corrupt interface files, as the message says, so the above instance might >> not be "the bug", I just thought I'd mention it in case you've ruled out >> other causes. > > Indeed, all other cases are already ruled out now. BTW: what's a ticket > number of this issue?
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2240 Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
