I wrote:
> I have a program (no doubt pretty grotty - I'm still messing around
> learning Haskell) which causes GHC (4.04.19990916) to produce an
> executable which coredumps.
...
> I'm using a GHC binary package from Debian GNU/Linux, binary package
> version 4.04.19990916-0slink1 built by Michael Weber
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. As soon as I get it to compile
> I'll try a compiler installation I built myself.
I've managed to build the Debian source 4.04.19990916-2 and it says:
-davenant:stalk> ./nettlestalk
foo
nettlestalk: fatal error: No threads to run! Deadlock?
-davenant:stalk>
My program doesn't use the Concurrent Haskell extensions. ISTR seeing
something about this on the mailing list or somewhere, and that it
might be cured by using a later version ? I can't see a later version
mentioned at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_404.html, unless
I want to use the CVS HEAD ...
Aside: Unfortunately I seem to have fallen off many of the Haskell
lists because haskell.org's DNS is broken and has been for some
considerable time. I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which seems to be the
supposed contact) and left a message on the phone number in WHOIS, but
this is not having any effect. Can someone closer to the people at
Yale please try to help get this fixed ? haskell.org really needs a
secondary nameserver which isn't at Yale. I'd be happy to provide
one, but I need to be put in touch with the relevant admins ! For
correspondence about this, please mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] This mailbox is closer to the
system running the nameserver, and also applies less strict checks to
incoming mail.
Ian.
