how to compile non-dynamic ghc-7.8.2 ?

[Jason Dagit]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/04/2014 02:15, John Lato wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to compile ghc-7.8.2 with DynamicGhcPrograms disabled (on
>> 64-bit linux).  I downloaded the source tarball, added
>>
>> DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
>>
>> to mk/build.mk <http://build.mk>, and did ./configure && ./make.
>>
>>
>> ghc builds and everything seems to work (cabal installed a bunch of
>> packages, ghci seems to work), however whenever I try to run Setup.hs
>> dynamically (either 'runghc Setup.hs configure' or loading it with ghci
>> and executing 'main') it dumps core.  Compiling Setup.hs works, and
>> nothing else has caused ghci to crash either (this email is a literate
>> haskell file equivalent to Setup.hs).
>>
>> Building with DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = YES works properly.
>>
>> With that in mind, I have a few questions:
>>
>>   How should I compile a non-dynamic ghc?
>>   Is this a bug in ghc?
>>
>
> I think you are running into this: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/
> ghc/ticket/8935
>
> It took me a *long* time to track that one down.  I still don't know what
> the root cause is, because I don't understand the system linker's behaviour
> here.


I just updated the ticket. I think I know what is going on so I added a
possible explanation. I'm not sure how you want to fix it.
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