Use strace with the -ff option. This will produce separate traces for each child, which will be easier to interpret. It looks like whatever is going wrong is happening in a child process (but someone who knows more about the innards of ghc may correct me on this).
On Monday 23 September 2002 08:04 pm, Saswat Anand wrote: > Hi > > I am also facing the same problem. I tried to build a virgin tree, > but with no success as Simon PJ has pointed out. > > I have attached my strace file. > > Saswat > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > I have been trying to build GHC, but the ghc.exe that gets built for > > > ghc-inplace always exits with "Error 1". It *can* print its version > > > number and the help, but building anything fails. The build fails > > > making Adjustor.o from Adjustor.c. > > > > > > I'm trying to build a cvs checkout fpconfig ghc hslibs on Win XP Pro, > > > bootstrapping with the provided GHC 5.04.1 binary and Happy > > > 1.13 binary. > > > > > > I mentioned this to a colleague and he said he had exactly the same > > > problem (ghc exits with error 1), on Windows and Linux, when building > > > from source tarballs and CVS. We don't normally have any problems > > > running the haskell.org GHC binaries. > > > > > > Can any of you suggest what we might be doing wrong? We are in the > > > southern hemisphere, so our electrons may be orbiting backwards. > > > > > :-) I've never seen this myself, I'm afraid. If you have a Linux build > > > > which behaves in the same way, could you try stracing it (i.e. prepend > > 'strace' to the command which fails) and send us the output? > > > > Cheers, > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users -- ----------------------------------- Seth Kurtzberg M. I. S. Corp. 1-480-661-1849 _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
