[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on reinier sloompie Linux-2.6.21.5 Slackware-12.0 i686

[Trent W. Buck]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:31:51 -0800, buildbot-darcs at allmydata.org wrote:
>> The Buildbot has detected a new failure of reinier sloompie Linux-2.6.21.=
> 5 Slackware-12.0 i686 on darcs.
>> Full details are available at:
>>  http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/reinier%20sloompie%20Linux-2.6.21.5%2=
> 0Slackware-12.0%20i686/builds/221
>
> This is a seemingly random GHC segfault with ghc 6.8.2.
> I've forced the build to see what happens...

Hello!  Remember that I've been seeing segfaults on Debian's 6.8.2.  I
tracked down the problem to my "deliterate" patches -- if I pull the one
that turns HashedIO.lhs into HashedIO.hs, for example, suddenly GHC
segfaults when compiling HashedIO.o.  This doesn't just affect HashedIO,
if I obliterate that patch, another deliterated file segfaults.  WTF!?

I installed a filthy, non-standard GHC 6.8.3 package yesterday, and the
problem went away.  Since this problem doesn't affect cabal builds, I
choose not to care about it.