Build problems on malo

[Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>]

Hi all,

It seems that malo has problems building things with ghc6, while
voltaire works fine, e.g. here is a package that malo has failed to
build:
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=haxml&ver=1.13.3-2&arch=powerpc&file=log
and here is one that malo failed to build, then voltaire built:
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=haskell-utils&ver=1.11&arch=powerpc&file=log

The symptom is:
ghc-6.8.2: timer_create: Invalid argument

I can't reproduce the problem on bruckner.

This is #479209 and #481140.

Does anyone know what is going on? Or better still, can anyone either
fix it, or tell me how I can fix it, as appropriate?


Thanks
Ian