Building GHC on Mac stops

[Carter Schonwald]

Yup.  This has been a recurrent problem for parallel builds.

There's been some prior work on tracking it down, possibly attributable to
time stamp granularity or some hiccup in the dependencies.

Does anyone know what the relevant ticket on track is?

On Monday, August 5, 2013, Kazu Yamamoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using GHC head (32bit) on Mac. Recently, building GHC head
> stops:
>
> ----
> % make maintainer-clean; perl boot; ./configure --prefix=/ghc-head; make
> -j3
> ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(mp_clz_tab.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(obprintf.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(obvprintf.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(obprntffuns.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(repl-vsnprintf.o) has no symbols
> libtool: link: rm -fr .libs/libgmp.lax
> libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libgmp.la" && cp -p "../libgmp.la" "
> libgmp.la" )
> cp libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/gmpbuild/gmp.h libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/
> cp libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/gmpbuild/.libs/libgmp.a
> libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/
> inplace/bin/mkdirhier libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs
> cd libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs && /usr/bin/ar x ../libgmp.a
> ranlib libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/libgmp.a
> ranlib: file: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/libgmp.a(mp_clz_tab.o) has no
> symbols
> ranlib: file: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/libgmp.a(obprintf.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/libgmp.a(obvprintf.o) has no
> symbols
> ranlib: file: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/libgmp.a(obprntffuns.o) has no
> symbols
> ranlib: file: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/libgmp.a(repl-vsnprintf.o) has no
> symbols
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> %
> ----
>
> One more "make -j3" finishes the building. I'm sure that this does not
> happen before.
>
> Are there any guys who get this problem?
>
> --Kazu
>
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