Bootstrapping ghc-6.4.3 hangs in call to "ghc-pkg-inplace"

I want to bootstrap ghc-6.4.3 with ghc-6.2.2 on an i686 Linux system based on libc-2.2.4. The bootstrap make runs ok until the following command:

../utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace --force --update-package <package.conf.inplace

which "hangs forever" while chewing up cpu cycles.

Cd-ing into ghc-pkg and issuing

./ghc-pkg.bin --help

produces exactly the same effect. An strace on the latter command results in an endless series of

sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---

When running ghc-pkg.bin under the control of gdb and interrupting with C-c always catches the execution inside of

__stginit_DistributionziCompatziReadP_ ()

which is a part of Cabal. However, the following trivial test program does not get stuck in that call:

-- Compile with:
--   ghc -i../../lib/compat -L../../lib/compat -lghccompat \
--       -o use-readp use-readp.hs

import Distribution.Compat.ReadP

main :: IO ()
main = do
       putStr "start.\n"

I'm not familiar enough with the ghc build system (nor Haskell) to know what goes wrong here.

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.4.3
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
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