ghc6: Re: Update: ... compiling ghc6

[Svante Signell]

Addressing both Haskell and Hurd people here. Any hints by anyone?

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 09:30 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
...
> #5  0x011d3ce0 in __libc_read (fd=DWARF-2 expression error: DW_OP_reg
> operations must be used either alone or in conjuction with DW_OP_piece
> or DW_OP_bit_piece.
> ) at ../sysdeps/mach/hurd/read.c:27
> #6  0x084919c8 in s9qJ_ret ()
> #7  0x0861f842 in StgRun ()
> #8  0x087c44e0 in ?? ()

Looking into this further, this looks like an error. What does it mean?
from eglibc-2.11.2/sysdeps/mach/hurd/read.c

/* Read NBYTES into BUF from FD.  Return the number read or -1.  */
ssize_t
__libc_read (int fd, void *buf, size_t nbytes)
{
  error_t err = HURD_FD_USE (fd, _hurd_fd_read (descriptor, buf,
&nbytes, -1));
  return err ? __hurd_dfail (fd, err) : nbytes;
}


The call is from the haskell binary cabal-bin but I don't have any debug
info from that executable. Anybody fluent in Haskell? 

(How to get debug info in Haskell with gdb?)

Below is the (stripped-down) call and the source code cabal-bin.hs:
cd libraries/random:
../cabal-bin /usr/bin/ghc6 ../bootstrapping.conf configure --verbose=3
--with-compiler=../../ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc
--with-hc-pkg=../../utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg


module Main (main) where

import Control.Monad
import Data.Maybe
import Distribution.PackageDescription
import Distribution.PackageDescription.Parse
import Distribution.Simple
import Distribution.Simple.Utils
import Distribution.Verbosity
import System.Directory
import System.Environment
import System.FilePath

import qualified Distribution.Make   as Make
import qualified Distribution.Simple as Simple

setupProg :: FilePath
setupProg = "./Setup"

main :: IO ()
main = do
    unprocessedArgs <- getArgs
    let verbosity = verbose
    case unprocessedArgs of
        ghc : packageConf : args ->
            doit verbosity ghc packageConf args
        _ -> die "Bad args"

doit :: Verbosity -> FilePath -> FilePath -> [String] -> IO ()
doit verbosity ghc packageConf args = do
    exists <- doesFileExist setupProg
    if exists then rawSystemExit verbosity setupProg args
              else do
        gpdFile <- defaultPackageDesc verbosity
        gpd <- readPackageDescription verbosity gpdFile
        let pd = packageDescription gpd
        case buildType pd of
      Just Simple    -> Simple.defaultMainArgs                     args
      Just Make      -> Make.defaultMainArgs                       args
      Just Configure -> defaultMainWithHooksArgs autoconfUserHooks args
            _ | packageName pd == PackageName "Cabal" ->
                              -- Cabal is special...*sigh*
                         Simple.defaultMainArgs                    args
              | otherwise  -> runSetup verbosity ghc packageConf   args

runSetup :: Verbosity -> FilePath -> FilePath -> [String] -> IO ()
runSetup verbosity ghc packageConf args = do
    -- Don't bother building Setup if we are cleaning. If we need to
    -- build Setup in order to build, and Setup isn't built already,
    -- then there shouldn't be anything to clean anyway.
    unless cleaning $
        rawSystemExit verbosity ghc ["-package-conf", packageConf,
                                     "--make", "Setup", "-o", "Setup"]
    rawSystemExit verbosity "./Setup" args
  where cleaning = case args of
                   "clean" : _ -> True
                   _ -> False