Indeed, memory was the issue.

By the way, serendipitiously, linode.com spontaneously upgraded all
virtual root boxen to 256M ram for free right around the time I ran
into this, which solved the problem.

so, if anyone would like to try haskell in a hosted environment, I can
now heartily recommend them :)

2007/2/28, Paul Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 2/27/07, Seth Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Hartman wrote:
> > Thanks. I incorporated these changes, and it cranks longer now before
> > failing. But still fails, now with a seg fault.
> According to conventional wisdom, when gcc segfaults on a big
> compilation job (e.g., the Linux kernel), it could be a sign of a
> transient memory error; gcc exercises the RAM so much that the error
> rate on a typical computer's memory chips can have a practical effect.

I believe that you're probably correct in this case: I was able to get
ghc 6.6 + optional packages built on a linode virtual host (guessing
from the original poster's prompt) but only after expanding the amount
of memory available.

-- Paul
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