ghc fails with -O flags on Mandrake

Hi the Glorious GHC Team,  
  
I suppose that it can be considered a bug that ghc fails to  
compile with -On, n>0 option while it compiles fine with no 
optimisation flags. For example, for a module as simple as:  
  
  module Test where  
  f x = x  
  
compiler fails with:  
  
  [rysiek@home LHS]$ ghc -O -c Test.hs  
  Prologue junk?: .globl __stginit_Test  
  __stginit_Test:  
          pushl   %ebp  
          movl    %esp, %ebp  
  
Compilation goes through when it is called with ghc -c Test.hs.  
  
I installed ghc version 5.04.3 on my Mandrake 9.0 Linux from   
a binary tar.bz file. The installation process went problemless;  
below please find log files generated for ./configure and for  
make install.  
  
I wonder if the problem has anything to do with version  
differences   
between the libraries used to produce a binary distribution  
and the ones that came with Mandrake 9.0. Of course, I've got  
both libreadline.so.4 and libncurses.so.5, as specified  
on ghc download page. Still, I wasn't able to install ghc from rpms   
because of unsatisfied requirements. For example,   
  
(.....  
Andrew Moran's rpm complains:  
  
  [root@home rysiek]# rpm --install ghc-5.04.3-1.i386.rpm  
  error: failed dependencies:  
          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by ghc-5.04.3-1  
          libreadline.so.4   is needed by ghc-5.04.3-1  
  
I understand the first of these complaints: /lib/libc.so.6 comes  
from glibc-2.2.5-16mdk on Mandrake, so GLIBC versions differ.  
Still, I don't know, how to read the second complain  
  
  [root@home rysiek]# locate libreadline  
  /lib/libreadline.so.4  
  /lib/libreadline.so.4.1  
  /lib/libreadline.so.4.2  
  /lib/libreadline.so.4.3  
  
This means that libreadline.so.4 is available, so perhaps the name  
of  
its rpm matters:  
  
  [root@home rysiek]# rpm -q -f /lib/libreadline.so.4  
  readline-4.3-4mdk  
.....)  
  
Anyway, after installation from a binary distribution went  
problemless  I would expect compiler to work 99,99999% 
problemless. In a situation when -On, n>0 options don't work  
I am unable to install fptools from their original bunch, for 
example. I am also not sure if it was possible to compile ghc  
from its sources. (I didn't try it, I expect,  however, that ghc  
itself is best compiled with lots of optimisation flags.)  
  
With Best Regards,  
Rysiek  
  
=== config.log  
  
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while  
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.  
  
configure:578: checking host system type  
configure:599: checking target system type  
configure:617: checking build system type  
configure:722: checking for perl  
configure:760: checking if your perl works in shell scripts  
configure:794: checking for a BSD compatible install  
configure:850: checking whether ln -s works  
configure:876: checking for sed  
configure:914: checking for gcc  
configure:1027: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works  
configure:1043: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5  
configure:1069: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a  
cross-compiler  
configure:1074: checking whether we are using GNU C  
configure:1102: checking whether gcc accepts -g  
configure:1134: checking whether you have an ok gcc  
configure:1164: checking how to run the C preprocessor  
  
=== make.log  
  
Configuring ghc, version 5.04.3, on i386-unknown-linux ...  
Creating a configured version of ghc-asm ..  
Done.  
Creating a configured version of ghc-split ..  
Done.  
Creating a configured version of ghc-5.04.3 ..  
Done.  
Creating a configured version of ghci-5.04.3 ..  
Done.  
Creating a configured version of ghc-pkg-5.04.3 ..  
Done.  
Creating a configured version of hsc2hs ..  
Done.  
./mkdirhier /usr/local/bin  
(cd lib/i386-unknown-linux; find . -type d -exec sh -c  
'../.././mkdirhier $0 /usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04.3/$0' {} \; )  
(cd share; find . -type d -exec sh -c '.././mkdirhier  
/usr/local/share/ghc-5.04.3/$0' {} \; )  
for i in  ghc-5.04.3 ghci-5.04.3 ghc-pkg-5.04.3 hsc2hs ""; do \  
   if test -n "$i" ; then /usr/bin/install -c -m 755    
bin/i386-unknown-linux/$i /usr/local/bin; fi; \  
done;  
for i in hp2ps ghcprof DrIFT DtdToHaskell Xtract ""; do \  
   if test -n "$i" ; then /usr/bin/install -c -m 755    
bin/i386-unknown-linux/$i /usr/local/bin; fi; \  
done;  
Creating a symbolic link from ghc-5.04.3 to ghc  
Creating a symbolic link from ghci-5.04.3 to ghci  
Creating a symbolic link from ghc-pkg-5.04.3 to ghc-pkg  
(cd lib/i386-unknown-linux; find . -type f -exec sh -c 'cp $0  
/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04.3/$0' {} \; )  
for i in `(cd share; find . -type f )`; do \  
   /usr/bin/install -c -m 644   share/$i /usr/local/share/ghc-5.04.3/$i;  
\  
done  
./mkdirhier /usr/local/share/ghc-5.04.3/html   
if test -d share/html ; then cp -r share/html/*  
/usr/local/share/ghc-5.04.3/html ; fi  
for i in share/*.ps; do \  
	cp $i /usr/local/share/ghc-5.04.3 ; \  
done  
  
=======================================================================  
Installation of ghc-5.04.3 was successful.  
  
To use, add /usr/local/bin to your PATH.  
  
For documentation, see  
/usr/local/share/ghc-5.04.3/html/index.html  
=======================================================================  
  

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.0
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	ResolvedDuplicate
Component	Compiler
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