Seg fault in haddock

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Thu Oct 20 15:11:29 CEST 2011


Hi Simon,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:23:31AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> Note the bogus path.    It is this command invocation that seg-faults.  (I wish the gen_contents script echoed its commands before executing them; could it be made to do so?)
> 
> 
> *        Now, it seems that this bogus path is enough to make haddock do its seg-fault. And that seems wrong.  Haskell programs should not seg-fault.  What's going on ?

I don't think that's the actual cause of the segfault. grep has
presumably been failing since the Cabal repo reorganisation some time
ago.

I'll try a Windows build and see if I get segfaults too.


Thanks
Ian




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