And after a lot more sleep and some digging, it turns out that the build script was forcing GCC to build the .o file as a 32 bit binary, and thus causing the "magic" mismatch.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Edward Amsden <eca7...@cs.rit.edu> wrote: > When building the Haskell Objective C bindings tool from > <http://code.google.com/p/hoc> > > Using GHC 7.0.3 for Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1, OS X 64 bit > > HOC compiles HOC_cbits.o before trying to build it into the rest of > the program (I don't say link because this came up while trying to > compile: > >> [18 of 31] Compiling HOC.StdArgumentTypes ( HOC/HOC/StdArgumentTypes.hs, >> dist/build/HOC/StdArgumentTypes.o ) >> [loading packages, like you'd see from ghci...] >> Loading object (static) dist/build/HOC_cbits.o ... ghc: >> dist/build/HOC_cbits.o: Bad magic. Expected: feedfacf, got: feedface. > > GHC says "the impossible happened" and tells me to report it as a GHC > bug, but based on the odd behavior I think the HOC build script might > be doing something odd. I just don't have any idea where to start > looking. For instance, why the heck is it looking at the magic bits > for an object file while compiling a source file? > > Any insight appreciated. > > -- > Edward Amsden > Student > Computer Science > Rochester Institute of Technology > www.edwardamsden.com > -- Edward Amsden Student Computer Science Rochester Institute of Technology www.edwardamsden.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
