Can't install 32-bit ghc-7.8.1 on 64-bit xubuntu 14.04

[Mikolaj Konarski]

The installation (and using the 32bit GHC on a 64bit Linux, to an extent)
should now be possible, as described at

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Compiling32on64


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:58:51AM -0500, Austin Seipp wrote:
> Kyrill,
>
> I think that at the moment, you can't really install a 32-bit GHC on a
> 64-bit platform. I've actually had a few reports 'in the wild' about
> there being problems with this, but I'm not sure if there's actually
> an official ticket regarding it. We should dig one up or file one if
> there isn't.
>
> In theory I see no reason why this should not be doable, but I can't
> imagine off the top of my head what might really be going wrong.
>
> Simon, do you perhaps have an idea? Or have you heard of this/tried it maybe?
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:17 AM, kyra <kyrab at mail.ru> wrote:
> > Sorry for flood, but it turned out the problem remains. My previous message
> > was a mistake.
> > Now I've removed all GHC installations from paths but this does not help.
> > Did anybody successfully install 32-bit ghc-7.8.1 on 64-bit linux?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kyra
> >
> >
> > On 4/11/2014 16:50, kyra wrote:
> >>
> >> Don't bother. That was a usual 32/64-bit mess when installer picked up
> >> something from 64-bit ghc, which was in a path.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Kyra
> >>
> >> On 4/11/2014 15:00, kyra wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ia32-libs is absent on modern Ubuntus.
> >>>
> >>> But if anyone is interested installing lib32ncurses5 and libgmp10:i386
> >>> did the 'configure' trick.
> >>>
> >>> But now 'make install' fails with:
> >>> "utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal-bindist" register
> >>> libraries/ghc-prim dist-install
> >>> "/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386/lib/ghc-7.8.1/bin/ghc"
> >>> "/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386/lib/ghc-7.8.1/bin/ghc-pkg"
> >>> "/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386/lib/ghc-7.8.1" ''
> >>> '/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386'
> >>> '/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386/lib/ghc-7.8.1'
> >>> '/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO
> >>> ghc-cabal: Bad interface file: dist-install/build/GHC/CString.hi
> >>> magic number mismatch: old/corrupt interface file? (wanted 33214052, got
> >>> 129742)
> >>>
> >>> Kyra
> >>
> >>
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>
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