When I try to build current darcs-unstable on AMD64 with ghc6.4 and  
gcc-3.3 I get the following errors:

ghc  -cpp  -package QuickCheck -package util -package parsec -O - 
funbox-strict-fields  -Wall -Werror -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL -c  
IsoDate.lhs
make: *** [IsoDate.o] Killed

On Jan 12, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Marnix Klooster wrote:

> Jason Dagit wrote:
>
>> New submission from Jason Dagit <dagit@codersbase.com>:
>>
>> When I try to build current darcs-unstable on AMD64 with ghc6.4  
>> and  gcc-3.3 I get the following errors:
>>
>> ghc  -cpp  -package QuickCheck -package util -package parsec -O -  
>> funbox-strict-fields  -Wall -Werror -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL - 
>> c  IsoDate.lhs
>> make: *** [IsoDate.o] Killed
>>
>> ----------
>> messages: 359
>> nosy: dagit, droundy, tommy
>> status: unread
>> title: IsoDate.lhs compilation on Debian AMD64
>>
>
> (Just guessing from your description, no actual testing done by  
> me.)  This could very well be a ghc 6.4 bug.  Version 6.4.1is out  
> since September 19th; if that's available on Debian/AMD64 and if  
> you could test with that, that would be great.
>
> Oh, and keep the "darcs changes --context" of the repo (with  
> unrecorded changes of course) in which you can reproduce this, just  
> in case a follow-up patch would change the source so that it  
> doesn't trigger this ghc bug anymore.

It turned out to be a bug with gcc-3.3.  I used gcc-4.0 instead and  
it compiles cleanly.  I sent an email saying that to the bug tracker,  
but I'm not sure if it made it in because of a hiccup with the bug  
tracker.  I don't think I will submit a bug to the gcc devs since it  
appears to be fixed in more recent versions of gcc.  But, perhaps the  
ghc debian package should use a newer version of gcc.  Any idea how I  
would submit that suggestion to the debian maintainers?

Thanks,
Jason

>> When I try to build current darcs-unstable on AMD64 with ghc6.4 and
>> gcc-3.3 I get the following errors:

>> ghc  -cpp  -package QuickCheck -package util -package parsec -O -
>> funbox-strict-fields  -Wall -Werror -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL -c
>> IsoDate.lhs

> (Just guessing from your description, no actual testing done by me.)
> This could very well be a ghc 6.4 bug.

It works for me using ghc 6.4.1 (Debian testing, with ghc taken from
unstable).

                                        Juliusz