#5446: build error for ghc 7.2.1 -- "ghc-pkg: too few bytes"
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Reporter: gatoatigrado | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Compiler
Version: 7.2.1 | Keywords:
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Building GHC 7.2.1 fails in Stage 1. I have 7.0.3 installed (also compiled
from source). Here's the last few lines from {{{make}}},
{{{
chmod +x inplace/lib/ghc-split
"rm" -f inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
echo '#!/bin/sh' >> inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
echo 'executablename="/home/gatoatigrado/Downloads/ghc-7.2.1/inplace/lib
/ghc-stage1"' >> inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
echo 'datadir="/home/gatoatigrado/Downloads/ghc-7.2.1/inplace/lib"'
>> inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
echo 'bindir="/home/gatoatigrado/Downloads/ghc-7.2.1/inplace/bin"'
>> inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
echo 'topdir="/home/gatoatigrado/Downloads/ghc-7.2.1/inplace/lib"' >>
inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
echo 'pgmgcc="/usr/bin/gcc"' >> inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
cat ghc/ghc.wrapper >> inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
chmod +x inplace/bin/ghc-stage1
/usr/bin/gcc -E -undef -traditional -P
-DTOP='"/home/gatoatigrado/Downloads/ghc-7.2.1"' -x c -Iincludes
libffi/package.conf.in -o libffi/package.conf.inplace.raw
grep -v '^#pragma GCC' libffi/package.conf.inplace.raw | sed -e 's/""//g'
-e 's/:[ ]*,/: /g' > libffi/package.conf.inplace
"inplace/bin/ghc-pkg" update --force libffi/package.conf.inplace
Reading package info from "libffi/package.conf.inplace" ... done.
ghc-pkg: too few bytes. Failed reading at byte position 44111
make[1]: *** [libffi/package.conf.inplace] Error 1
make[1]: *** Deleting file `libffi/package.conf.inplace'
make: *** [all] Error 2
}}}
The output from {{{./configure}}} is
{{{
Configure completed successfully.
Building GHC version : 7.2.1
Build platform : x86_64-unknown-linux
Host platform : x86_64-unknown-linux
Target platform : x86_64-unknown-linux
Bootstrapping using : /usr/local/bin/ghc
which is version : 7.0.3
Using GCC : /usr/bin/gcc
which is version : 4.5.1
ld : /usr/bin/ld
Happy : /usr/bin/happy (1.18.5)
Alex : /usr/bin/alex (2.3.3)
Python : /usr/bin/python
Perl : /usr/bin/perl
dblatex : /usr/bin/dblatex
xsltproc : /usr/bin/xsltproc
HsColour was not found; documentation will not contain source links
Building DocBook HTML documentation : YES
Building DocBook PS documentation : YES
Building DocBook PDF documentation : YES
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}}}
finally, {{{ghc-pkg check}}} reports no errors.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5446>
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