#4828: ghci fails to load fat binary archives on OS X
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Reporter: gwright | Owner: igloo
Type: bug | Status: patch
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.2.1
Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.0.1
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: MacOS X | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: GHCi crash
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Comment(by hesselink):
I think I've run into this bug, but not using GHCi. I'm building a package
which uses HDBC-postgresql. During building, it tries to load a postgresql
archive, and fails:
{{{
Loading package HDBC-postgresql-2.2.3.3 ... ghc: internal error:
loadArchive: Not an archive: `/Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libpq.a'
(GHC version 7.0.1 for i386_apple_darwin)
Please report this as a GHC bug:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
}}}
Examining the file in question shows it is a universal binary with two
architectures:
{{{
$ file /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libpq.a
/Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libpq.a: Mach-O universal binary with 2
architectures
/Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libpq.a (for architecture ppc): current ar
archive random library
/Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libpq.a (for architecture i386): current ar
archive
}}}
If I read this ticket correctly, it seems this means HDBC-postgresql will
remain unusable with GHC 7.0, and thus with the coming haskell platform.
It that correct?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4828#comment:17>
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