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RE: HEAD segfaulting: msg#00266

Subject: RE: HEAD segfaulting
 
> Me too. GHC seems to generate wrong machine code when building itself.
> I can add the following information:
> 
> When building ghc from source, using a ghc-6.2.1 (recent 
> source tarball
> built with ghc-5.02.3 and installed), the first ghc which is 
> built (stage 1)
> *seems* to work correctly. It builds the stage 2 ghc without 
> showing any errors.
> Problems show up when using this ghc (stage 2), e.g. for building a
> stage 3 ghc, but also any trivial "hello world" program.
> 
> Compiling with "ghc-inplace -v X.hs" shows that the compiler 
> segfaults during
> the type check.

We're not seeing this (obviously, since the nightly builds are still
going through).  Hmmm.  It's not a gcc issue, because someone using gcc
3.2.2 also reported it, and that's what we use here.

What's your exact build setup: build.mk, any configure arguments?

Cheers,
        Simon


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