Re: ghci 6.10.1+dfsg1-4 segfaults on powerpc

[Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder@dfki.de>]

Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Now I am really confused. On my debian powerpc system I see
> 
> shyamal@turtle:~$ uname
> Linux
> shyamal@turtle:~$ ld -v
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.18.0.20080103

me too. This combination seems to be buggy:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/487
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2972
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?architecture=powerpc&os=Linux&order=priority

> while on a (different, Intel) Mac at work of course I see 
> 
> dhcp-203:~ sprasad$ uname
> Darwin
> dhcp-203:~ sprasad$ ld -v
> @(#)PROGRAM:ld  PROJECT:ld64-85.2.1
> 
> 
> What does XCode have to do with the powerpc segfault?

I thought it might have been
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2117
but that only applied to MacOS not Linux

Cheers Christian