FFI library error building GHC

[member MP2E]

Filed a bug under GHC Trac, #9620

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Is there a ticket for that already on GHC Trac? If not, please create
> one, and try to document everything we already know about this issue
>
> On 2014-09-20 at 14:25:56 +0200, member MP2E wrote:
> > Symlinking lib64 to lib didn't seem to work, I think the directory is
> > getting cleared before build. But if I copy the contents of lib64 to lib
> > after the build fails and then type make again, ghc compiles!
> >
> > Thanks for the workaround, hopefully a real fix will be found soon
> enough :)
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Moritz Angermann <moritz at lichtzwerge.de
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> While this is not a proper fix. Assuming there is no no lib folder, and
> >> the proper lib is in lib64, does: symlinking lib64 to lib and continuing
> >> with make solve the issue?
> >>
> >> On Sep 20, 2014, at 12:32 PM, member MP2E <mp2e at archlinux.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Yep, I reported this same build error for NixOS on x86_64,
> unfortunately
> >> I haven't found any way to solve it. Reverting the commit that upgrades
> to
> >> libffi-3.1 still showed this issue. I'd love to see this fixed, as I am
> >> unable to do any development on GHC until it's fixed :(
>
>
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