relocation R_X86_64_32 (Was: GHC HQ on Launchpad)

[Simon Marlow]

On 08/04/2014 09:58, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 08.04.2014, 10:31 +0200 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
>> Just a reminder, as not everybody may be aware yet:
>>
>> There's already daily GHC HEAD packages for Debian at
>>
>>    http://deb.haskell.org/
>
> thanks for the reminder. I guess I need to set up something that
> notifies me of failures...
>
> Since March 27 weeks, it seems, it is failing:
>
> [..]
> configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd
> /usr/bin/ld: utils/ghc-pwd/dist-boot/Main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `stg_CHARLIKE_closure' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> utils/ghc-pwd/dist-boot/Main.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: error: Building ghc-pwd failed
> make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> http://deb.haskell.org/dailies/2014-04-07/ghc_7.9.20140407-0.daily_amd64.build
>
> Any ideas? I’m not an expert on linker issues.

What LDFLAGS are being passed to the configure script?

This change I made recently forwards LDFLAGS to GHC when building ghc-pwd:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/2aa78106ae8f3c9b71d7b85c2a8a5558c4c35fb4/ghc

Cheers,
Simon