Installing ghc-7.10.2 linux binary distro on SuSE

[Aycan iRiCAN]

I'm happy to see it worked. If you want to get rid of LD_PRELOAD, you may
use patchelf to modify your binary to inject your fakelib. See 'add-needed'
parameter here:

https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/blob/master/README

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:50 Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Aycan. The LD_PRELOAD solution did indeed work. I didn't know about
> that facility before, so I'm pleasantly surprised.
>
> One gotcha though: I had to add the "fake-library" into the runtime as
> well; with a command that looked like this:
>
>     ar q libHsrts_thr.a ghcFakeLib.o
>
> where the libHsrts_thr.a comes from the binary distro, and the
> ghcFakeLib.o is the object file I got by defining those pthread_setname_np
> and pthread_getname_np. (They do nothing but return 0.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Levent.
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Aycan İrican <iricanaycan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Levent,
>>
>> For a quick fix, you may want to create a wrapper script which uses
>> LD_PRELOAD to inject `set_threadname_np` to your runtime. An example is
>> given in this blog page:
>>
>> http://hackerboss.com/overriding-system-functions-for-fun-and-profit/
>>
>> -aycan
>>
>>
>> On 30 Aug 2015, at 03:02, Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I really like the idea of nix. Alas, generating native binaries that can
>> run on SuSE without being in the nix environment is a requirement that's
>> hard to let go. (Everyone in my group would have to start using nix, a tall
>> order.)
>>
>> Thanks for the advice however, it can indeed come handy for one-off
>> trials if needed. In the meantime, I'm still looking for a
>> binary-linux-distro that doesn't require the set_threadname_np
>> functionality, if anyone can point me in that direction.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Levent.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Kosyrev Serge <
>> _deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com> writes:
>>> > Hello all,
>>> >
>>> > I've been having a lot of trouble installing the binary-distro's on a
>>> > SuSE machine. Unfortunately, I don't have root privileges and thus my
>>> > options are rather limited.
>>> >
>>> > The problem seem to boil down to the use of the function
>>> > pthread_setname_np. It appears the problem was noted before, and Simon
>>> > Marlow added a corresponding configure check for platforms that do not
>>> > have this function. See here:
>>> > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-October/006707.html
>>> >
>>> > Alas, none of the binary distributions listed on
>>> > https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_10_2#binaries seem to be
>>> > built against a system that does not have this function. So, I was
>>> > unable to install 7.10.2 successfully.
>>> >
>>> > Essentially, I'm looking for a binary distro on SuSE, or with a libc
>>> > that doesn't have the GNU extensions such as pthread_setname_np; if
>>> > anyone would be kind enough to put out such a binary distro, that'd
>>> > really be appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > (Yes, I tried building from the source; but in the corporate
>>> > environment with so many things controlled, that did not go very far.)
>>>
>>> You could try the Nix route, which, conceptually, would boil down to:
>>>
>>> 1. Installing the Nix package manager into your $HOME on the SuSE system
>>> 2. Use Nix to install GHC
>>>
>>> Which expands to:
>>>
>>> 1. Following the instructions at:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_%28on_another_distribution%29#PRoot_Installation
>>>
>>> 2. Invoking:
>>>
>>>   nix-env -iA haskellPackages.ghc
>>>
>>> This would require only HTTP access, which, I presume, should be
>>> available within the corporate environment.
>>>
>>> All the packages from Hackage can be had precompiled from Nixpkgs,
>>> but that's slightly more involved and requires some reading:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#users-guide-to-the-haskell-infrastructure
>>>
>>> Should you meet trouble, you can always seek help either at
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>>> channel -- both have a vibrant nightlife^W Haskell community.
>>>
>>> --
>>> с уважениeм / respectfully,
>>> Косырев Серёга
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>>>  by those who could not hear the music.”
>>>  – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
>>>
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