On Aug 26, 2008, at 02:02, Christoph Ludwig wrote: > a colleague of mine is unable to install darcs on his 10.4.11 / > PowerBook G4 > due to a problem with the required ghc port (currently in revision > 6.8.3_0). > Some Lisp library we rely on uses darcs as its only distribution > method (for > reasonably recent revisions, at least), so this is a blocking issue > for us. > > Apparently, the bootstrapping fails because the bootstrapping > complier / > linker fails on this OS / architecture combination, cf. the error > message > below. The problem seems to be related to both > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15923 and a ticket in ghc's bug > tracking > system > http://www.nabble.com/-GHC---2380%3A-Adjustor.o-crash-compiling- > ghc-6.8.3-on-iBook-G4-10.4.11-td17993124.html#a17993124.
> == make all -r; > in > /opt/local/var/macports/build/ > _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ > ghc/work/ghc-6.8.3/rts > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > ../compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-O -optc-I/opt/local/include -optc-Wall > -optc-W -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes > -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return > -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel -optc-Ism > -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-I/opt/local/ > include > -optc-I../gmp/gmpbuild -optc-fno-strict-aliasing -H16m -O > -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -optc-O2 -package-name rts - > static > -I/opt/local/include -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I. -#include HCIncludes.h > -dcmm-lint -c Adjustor.c -o Adjustor.o > make[1]: *** [Adjustor.o] Bus error > make: *** [stage1] Error 1 Yes, this appears to be a ghc bug. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2380 You will have to discuss the issue with the developers of ghc; they are the ones who need to fix the problem. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users