RE: Fail to compile 5.04.3 on Solaris

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
> > > I managed to get it to work it seems...
> > >
> > > I started by upgrading to 5.04.2 as this seemed to be a 
> good idea. The
> > > error was still there. But restarting the make process again
> > > worked fine when I did 'make boot' in hslibs as well.
> > >
> > > So I got my compiler after all. But the error is a bit annoying.
> >
> > It may have been due to a bug in the older version of GHC 
> that you were
> > bootstrapping with.  Did the bus error go away when you 
> recompiled GHC
> > with 5.04.2?
> >
> No. And bootstrapping with 5.04.3 also gave a segmentation fault. I've
> attached a printout of what happens when I restart the 
> compilation with
> EXTRA_HC_OPTS=-v. As before, Handle compiles fine when I restart the
> compilation.

Ah, it actually looks like the linker crashed.  On Sun boxes, I usually
find that using the GNU linker gives much better results: it's orders of
magnitude faster, for one thing.

Cheers,
        Simon