RE: GHC 6.4.1 crash on Windows XP
Can you tell which process is crashing? Is it the GHC process that is interpreting Setup.hs, or the process invoked by Setup.hs to build the package? One thing you could try is compiling Setup.hs to a binary, and running that instead. Also, if you could run Setup like this and send us the output: $ ./setup build -v (or the runhaskell version, if that's the only one that crashes) Cheers, Simon On 28 February 2006 10:57, Cyril Schmidt wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: Does it always crash in the same way? Yes, as far as I can see. Unfortunately, most of the context is already lost when the error message pops up. The error code is always the same. Can you fire up GHCi and perform a small evaluation or two? Yes, this works just fine. Can you compile small programs, do they run? Also works fine. Please send us the complete output from commands that crash: eg. add -v to the build command above. I attach the stderr and stdout from runhaskell -v5 Setup.hs build I could also send the sources of the package being compiled, but I do not think they are relevant here: it crashes on *any* package. BTW, I had installed Cabal-1-1.3, but it did not help, so I reverted to the version of Cabal that came with the compiler. It is strange that the same version of GHC works fine on my PC and breaks on that of my colleague. To the best of my knowledge, these two PCs are not different from each other in any special way. I did have some strange crashes on my PC as well, but these were cured by upgrading from 6.4 to 6.4.1. Cheers, Cyril Cyril Schmidt wrote: A freshly installed GHC 6.4.1 on my colleague's PC crashes when I try to build a package: runhaskell Setup.hs build The effect is easily reproduceable (it shows up on *any* package that I try to build). Does anyone have any idea of what might be wrong here? ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
RE: GHC 6.4.1 crash on Windows XP
Can you tell which process is crashing? Is it the GHC process that is interpreting Setup.hs, or the process invoked by Setup.hs to build the package? I suspect it is the GHC process that is invoked by Setup.hs, but I do not have any hard evidence to support this. One thing you could try is compiling Setup.hs to a binary, and running that instead. That worked! I think this counts as evidence for the above. Also, if you could run Setup like this and send us the output: $ ./setup build -v (or the runhaskell version, if that's the only one that crashes) I did it via runhaskell: runhaskell Setup.hs build -v Preprocessing library Vasicek-0.3... Building Vasicek-0.3... This is all what it said before the crash... Just about 15 minutes ago I fixed the problem (at least I hope I did) by installing the snapshot of GHC 6.4.2 of February 27 (BTW, the cc1.exe is missing from the tar file). I also found at least one difference between the PC where the problem showed up and the one where it did not. Both PCs had Cygwin installed. On the PC where the problem did not show up, the Cygwin executables shadowed the Windows programs with the same name: e.g. if I type 'find' in Windows command prompt, I get the UNIX find. On the PC where the problem did show up, it was the other way: I get the Windows find (of course, from the bash shell I always get the UNIX find). I do not know, though, if this is linked in any way to the GHC problem. I spent some time playing with PATH to try to make the two PCs behave the same, but I could not (I do not have Admin priviledges). The GHC was always started from the Windows prompt, never from bash. Anyway, as the problem is solved by moving from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2, we can conclude that it was caused by one of the bugs fixed after 6.4.1, and close the issue for now. If you, however, would like to continue investigation, please let me know -- I can easily reproduce the problem, and I'll be happy to get any extra information for you (once I know how to get it). I will keep version 6.4.1 for the time being. Thank you very much for the help. Cheers, Cyril ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.4.1 crash on Windows XP
Cyril Schmidt wrote: A freshly installed GHC 6.4.1 on my colleague's PC crashes when I try to build a package: runhaskell Setup.hs build The effect is easily reproduceable (it shows up on *any* package that I try to build). Does anyone have any idea of what might be wrong here? Does it always crash in the same way? Can you fire up GHCi and perform a small evaluation or two? Can you compile small programs, do they run? Please send us the complete output from commands that crash: eg. add -v to the build command above. Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
GHC 6.4.1 crash on Windows XP
A freshly installed GHC 6.4.1 on my colleague's PC crashes when I try to build a package: runhaskell Setup.hs build The effect is easily reproduceable (it shows up on *any* package that I try to build). Does anyone have any idea of what might be wrong here? Cyril ___ For the record, the information given by Windows at the point of crash: Exception Information Code: 0xc005Flags: 0x0 Record: 0x0 Address: 0x0 System Information Windows NT 5.1 Build: 2600 Module 1 ghc.exe Image Base: 0x0040 Image Size: 0x0 Checksum: 0x0088d2bdTime Stamp: 0x433058b8 (The IP and SP already point somewhere inside Dr. Watson, as far as I can see, so I don't think the registers and stack contents are of any use at this point.) ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
