ghc on PowerPC: [Apply.o] Segmentation fault

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I can't build ghc @6.10.4_4 on Tiger PPC:

:info:build /mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.4/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc  -H32m -O -L/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.10.4/libffi -I/mp/include -L/mp/lib -optc-O2 -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -Ism -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts -static  -I/mp/include -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I../libffi/build/include -I. -dcmm-lint     -c Apply.cmm -o Apply.o
:info:build make[1]: *** [Apply.o] Segmentation fault
:info:build make: *** [stage1] Error 2

ghc @6.10.4_3 built fine.

Looks like a recurrence of #15142, which had duplicates #17184 and #15923.

This machine: Power Mac G4 Digital Audio 466 MHz, 1.125 GB RAM, MacPorts 1.9 branch @70323, Mac OS X 10.4.11 8S165 with all software updates applied, Xcode 2.5.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

full log

[avysk (Alexey Vyskubov)]

I have exactly the same problem on Leopard: Power Mac G5 2 x 2 GHz, 3.5 Gb RAM, Macports 1.9.1, Mac OS X 10.5.8 with all updates, Xcode 3.1.4.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #26550.

[bikefridaywalter@…]

Cc Me!

[bikefridaywalter@…]

1.5GHz G4 PowerBook 1.25GB RAM, OS X 10.5.8, MacPorts 1.9.1, and XCode 3.1.

[bikefridaywalter@…]

BTW this may be insurmountable. I cannot find a PPC installer on the Haskell site. Out of curiousity, has anyone tried to install ghc manually?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It shouldn't be insurmountable; it was surmounted before (see #15142) and ghc @6.10.4_3 built fine on PowerPC, so worst case you could go back to a previous revision of the ghc portfile.

[bikefridaywalter@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

It shouldn't be insurmountable; it was surmounted before (see #15142) and ghc @6.10.4_3 built fine on PowerPC, so worst case you could go back to a previous revision of the ghc portfile.

If I read the revision log correctly, then all this removes is problems with autoconf. Frankly, deactivating autoconf and activating @2.63 should get around that issue, correct? Or does requiring a port without specifically calling out the version automatically require the most current version (@2.67 in this case)?

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

"Surmounted before" is a pretty optimistic reading of what actually happened in #15142. "'Seems to be' an upstream problem with some Apple compilers and I can't reproduce it" != "fixed" in my book.

I guess this is a regression in some other package between the releases of ghc 6.10.4_3 and ghc 6.10.4_4, and this was exposed by the rebuild. For example, there's a version skew between the version of ghc's "filepath" module required by the "directory" and "process" modules and the one available to the build, and the log warns that this is likely to cause compile failures. I don't say this is the cause here, but that kind of thing seems quite probable to me. @ryandesign: have you tried building 6.10.4_3 (or any earlier revision) since the failure of 6.10.4_4?

I'm just going to revert to my previous version of the Portfile and hack PortIndex to make it think I'm up to date any time I install or upgrade something that would trigger a ghc upgrade. :-/

[alun.j.carr@…]

Cc Me!

[alun.j.carr@…]

Exactly the same problem building ghc @6.10.4, Revision 4.

12" PowerBook G4, 1.5 GHz, 1.25 GB RAM

OS X Leopard 10.5.8

Xcode 3.1.4

MacPorts 1.9.2

[Olivier_Mutschler@…]

Replying to alun.j.carr@…:

Exactly the same problem building ghc @6.10.4, Revision 4.

12" PowerBook G4, 1.5 GHz, 1.25 GB RAM

OS X Leopard 10.5.8

Xcode 3.1.4

MacPorts 1.9.2

I had the same problem. But it turned out that I had to download the fallowing version: ghc-6.8.3-powerpc-apple-darwin.2.tar.bz2 and then it says that some libraries are missing so it installed with: "port install readline" and then it worked at least for me ;-)

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Port abandoned, #35561.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

I think this ticket is obsolete, since it concerns GHC 6. GHC is at version 7.x in MacPorts now.