Build failure under Fedora 21

[Roman Cheplyaka]

Do you know you can simply install the ghc binary distribution without
having to compile anything?
https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_8_4

On 11/01/15 08:07, Dominick Samperi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build ghc-7.8 branch under Fedora 21 and I get the
> failure diagnostics appended below. The problem seems to be that the
> build process cannot satisfy deepseq >=1.2 && <1.4, but I explicitly
> installed deepseq-1.3.0.2, and this did not help (same error?).
> 
> Under Fedora 21 Haskell Platform contains ghc-7.6.3, so this is
> the boot compiler. The ghc binary for centos65 installs provided I define
> /usr/lib64/libgmp.so.3 as a symbolic link to /usr/lib64/libgmp.so.10,
> a risky move.
> 
> Any tips would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dominick
> 
> 
> ===--- building phase 0
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'phase_0_builds'.
> ===--- building phase 1
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" check libraries/containers
> 'ghc-options: -O2' is rarely needed. Check that it is giving a real
> benefit and not just imposing longer compile times on your users.
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure libraries/containers dist-install ""
> --with-ghc="/home/dsamperi/install/git/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"
> --with-ghc-pkg="/home/dsamperi/install/git/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg"
> --disable-library-for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla
> --disable-library-profiling --enable-shared
> --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -fno-stack-protector   "
> --configure-option=LDFLAGS="   " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="   "
> --gcc-options=" -fno-stack-protector       " --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc"
> --with-ld="/usr/bin/ld" --configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc"
> --with-ar="/usr/bin/ar" --with-ranlib="/usr/bin/ranlib"
> --with-alex="/home/dsamperi/.cabal/bin/alex"
> --with-happy="/home/dsamperi/.cabal/bin/happy"
> Configuring containers-0.5.5.1...
> ghc-cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> deepseq >=1.2 && <1.4
> libraries/containers/ghc.mk:4: recipe for target
> 'libraries/containers/dist-install/package-data.mk' failed
> make[1]: *** [libraries/containers/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1
> Makefile:71: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
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