lang/ghc build failure and possible workaround

[Volker Stolz]

On 21.06.2006, at 17:14, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> On an early-June -CURRENT, ghc blows up pretty early with:
>
> I note that the bootstrap ghc is a FreeBSD 6 binary, and seems to link
> to libc (.6) and libpthread (.2), so this may be an occurance of the
> issues discussed on the -current list a few weeks back about
> incompatibilities between the new libpthread and the old libc.
>
>
> As a workaround, I libmap.conf'd libc.so.6 to libc.so.7 for
> [ghc-6.4.2], and sent it off.  It seems to work, though at the moment
> it's 56 minutes of CPU time into LiberateCase.hi, so I'm not sure if
> it really works...

Sorry for the inconvenience, it should probably be marked as BROKEN  
on 7.x.
You might want to try one of the other threading libs instead of  
libpthread!

Volker