Benchmarks fail to run on GHC 7.10.3

[RyanGlScott]

Steps to reproduce:

$ cabal get kdt
Unpacking to kdt-0.2.4/
$ cd kdt-0.2.4/
$ cabal bench
...
Running 1 benchmarks...
Benchmark KDTBenchmark: RUNNING...
KDTBenchmark: the flag -p requires the program to be built with -prof
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark: Usage: <prog> <args> [+RTS <rtsopts> | -RTS <args>] ... --RTS <args>
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:    +RTS    Indicates run time system options follow
KDTBenchmark:    -RTS    Indicates program arguments follow
KDTBenchmark:   --RTS    Indicates that ALL subsequent arguments will be given to the
KDTBenchmark:            program (including any of these RTS flags)
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark: The following run time system options are available:
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -?       Prints this message and exits; the program is not executed
KDTBenchmark:   --info   Print information about the RTS used by this program
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -K<size>  Sets the maximum stack size (default: 80% of the heap)
KDTBenchmark:             Egs: -K32k -K512k -K8M
KDTBenchmark:   -ki<size> Sets the initial thread stack size (default 1k)  Egs: -ki4k -ki2m
KDTBenchmark:   -kc<size> Sets the stack chunk size (default 32k)
KDTBenchmark:   -kb<size> Sets the stack chunk buffer size (default 1k)
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -A<size> Sets the minimum allocation area size (default 512k) Egs: -A1m -A10k
KDTBenchmark:   -M<size> Sets the maximum heap size (default unlimited)  Egs: -M256k -M1G
KDTBenchmark:   -H<size> Sets the minimum heap size (default 0M)   Egs: -H24m  -H1G
KDTBenchmark:   -m<n>    Minimum % of heap which must be available (default 3%)
KDTBenchmark:   -G<n>    Number of generations (default: 2)
KDTBenchmark:   -c<n>    Use in-place compaction instead of copying in the oldest generation
KDTBenchmark:            when live data is at least <n>% of the maximum heap size set with
KDTBenchmark:            -M (default: 30%)
KDTBenchmark:   -c       Use in-place compaction for all oldest generation collections
KDTBenchmark:            (the default is to use copying)
KDTBenchmark:   -w       Use mark-region for the oldest generation (experimental)
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -T         Collect GC statistics (useful for in-program statistics access)
KDTBenchmark:   -t[<file>] One-line GC statistics (if <file> omitted, uses stderr)
KDTBenchmark:   -s[<file>] Summary  GC statistics (if <file> omitted, uses stderr)
KDTBenchmark:   -S[<file>] Detailed GC statistics (if <file> omitted, uses stderr)
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -Z       Don't squeeze out update frames on stack overflow
KDTBenchmark:   -B       Sound the bell at the start of each garbage collection
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -h       Heap residency profile (output file <program>.hp)
KDTBenchmark:   -i<sec>  Time between heap profile samples (seconds, default: 0.1)
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   -C<secs>  Context-switch interval in seconds.
KDTBenchmark:             0 or no argument means switch as often as possible.
KDTBenchmark:             Default: 0.02 sec.
KDTBenchmark:   -V<secs>  Master tick interval in seconds (0 == disable timer).
KDTBenchmark:             This sets the resolution for -C and the heap profile timer -i,
KDTBenchmark:             and is the frequence of time profile samples.
KDTBenchmark:             Default: 0.01 sec.
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark:   --install-signal-handlers=<yes|no>
KDTBenchmark:             Install signal handlers (default: yes)
KDTBenchmark:   -xm       Base address to mmap memory in the GHCi linker
KDTBenchmark:             (hex; must be <80000000)
KDTBenchmark:   -xq       The allocation limit given to a thread after it receives
KDTBenchmark:             an AllocationLimitExceeded exception. (default: 100k)
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark: RTS options may also be specified using the GHCRTS environment variable.
KDTBenchmark: 
KDTBenchmark: Other RTS options may be available for programs compiled a different way.
KDTBenchmark: The GHC User's Guide has full details.
KDTBenchmark: 
Benchmark KDTBenchmark: ERROR

See also iu-parfunc/sc-haskell#7

[RyanGlScott]

Closing stale issue.