Building ghc with profiling libraries fails on windows.
I've initially only hit this when enabling -g, but now I've run into the same issue without a customized build.mk file.
Seems like we create too many sections in a single file on windows.
C://ghc//msys64//home//Andi//ghc_head//inplace//mingw//bin/as.exe: C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_6.p_o: too many sections (32801)
C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_1.s: Assembler messages:
C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_1.s: Fatal error: can't write 4 bytes to section .rdata$c1w2b_str of C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_6.p_o because: 'File too big'
C://ghc//msys64//home//Andi//ghc_head//inplace//mingw//bin/as.exe: C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_6.p_o: too many sections (32801)
C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_1.s: Fatal error: can't close C:\\ghc\\msys64\\tmp\\ghc6664_0\\ghc_6.p_o: File too big
`gcc.exe' failed in phase `Assembler'. (Exit code: 1)
make[1]: *** [libraries/template-haskell/ghc.mk:4: libraries/template-haskell/dist-install/build/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.p_o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:128: all] Error 2
build.mk
ifneq "$(BuildFlavour)" ""
include mk/flavours/$(BuildFlavour).mk
endif
GhcLibHcOpts += -g1
GhcRtsHcOpts += -g1
# GhcStage2HcOpts += -g3
BUILD_PROF_LIBS=YES
# Don't strip debug and other unneeded symbols from libraries and executables.
STRIP_CMD = :
HADDOCK_DOCS = NO
BUILD_SPHINX_HTML = NO
BUILD_SPHINX_PDF = NO
BUILD_MAN = NO
Edited by Andreas Klebinger