How do I build basic GHC packages with -fPIC?

Viacheslav Lotsmanov lotsmanov89 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 22:24:50 UTC 2017


I've tried to replace my whole /build.mk/ with your example:

SRC_HC_OPTS += -fPIC
SRC_CC_OPTS += -fPIC

And then got this error:

Installing library in /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/lib/ghc-8.2.2/ghci-8.2.2
"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" copy compiler stage2 "strip" '' 
'/ghc-8.2.2-fpic' '/ghc-8.2.2-fpic/lib/ghc-8.2.2' 
'/ghc-8.2.2-fpic/share/doc/ghc-8.2.2/html/libraries' 'v p dyn'
Installing library in /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/lib/ghc-8.2.2/ghc-8.2.2
ghc-cabal: Error: Could not find module: DriverBkp with any suffix: ["p_hi"]
in the search path: ["stage2/build"]
ghc.mk:986: recipe for target 'install_packages' failed
make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Makefile:122: recipe for target 'install' failed
The command '/bin/sh -c mkdir /compile && cd /compile   && wget 
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.2/ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz && tar 
-xvf ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz        && rm ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz     && cd 
ghc-8.2.2/ && ./configure --prefix=/ghc-8.2.2-fpic 
--disable-library-profiling            --enable-shared && cp 
/my-build.mk mk/build.mk  && make install        && rm -rf /compile 
/my-build.mk && cd /usr/local/bin    && ls /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/bin/ | xargs 
-I{} ln -s /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/bin/{}' returned a non-zero code: 2

Should I add something else to this file?


On 12/27/2017 01:20 PM, Alberto Valverde wrote:
> BTW, this is the Makefile that builds the extension I mentioned: 
> https://github.com/albertov/pg_schedule/blob/master/Makefile.
> When LINK_STATICALLY=TRUE it produces an '.so' which only links 
> dynamically to system libraries, all haskell libraries are linked 
> statically:
>
> alberto at albertows:~/src/thelonius$ ldd 
> /nix/store/1cy055y8ycs2acqa8w8qf6dbsnx7cc1b-pg_schedule-1.0/lib/schedule.so 
>
>        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff191b9000)
>        libm.so.6 => 
> /nix/store/fysbl29a8p8sa9z3wpnqpn56a0b54fap-glibc-2.26-75/lib/libm.so.6 
> (0x00007fae8aec6000)
>        libgmp.so.10 => 
> /nix/store/jc8l6hlwl8hc590riqqkk0pr55sjfng2-gmp-6.1.2/lib/libgmp.so.10 
> (0x00007fae8ac33000)
>        libc.so.6 => 
> /nix/store/fysbl29a8p8sa9z3wpnqpn56a0b54fap-glibc-2.26-75/lib/libc.so.6 
> (0x00007fae8a880000)
>        /nix/store/h1a1ncbkkhapzm0509plqjlfrgxw22f3-glibc-2.25-49/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 
> (0x00007fae8cd4d000)
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Alberto Valverde <alberto at toscat.net 
> <mailto:alberto at toscat.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm manage to link statically all haskell libraries to a
>     dynamically loadable postgreSQL extension written in haskell using:
>
>     SRC_HC_OPTS += -fPIC
>     SRC_CC_OPTS += -fPIC
>
>     in build.mk <http://build.mk> and passing these options to every
>     package cabal builds:
>
>     --ghc-option=-fPIC --ghc-option=-optc-fPIC
>
>     I'm using nix but it should work in any environment if you make
>     sure every package cabal build gets these options (maybe by
>     setting them in $HOME/.cabal/config?)
>
>     HTH,
>     Alberto
>
>     On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Viacheslav Lotsmanov
>     <lotsmanov89 at gmail.com <mailto:lotsmanov89 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi there. My actual main goal is to build my own shared
>         library written in Haskell that would be compatible with
>         application written in C even without knowing that is is
>         written in Haskell. So for now I compiled my shared library
>         but I only could dynamically link it to Haskell dependencies
>         such as "base" and "ghc-prim" packages. But I want to
>         statically link Haskell dependencies but I realized it isn't
>         simple and straightforward task.
>
>         On Freenode's #haskell I was advised I should build GHC from
>         scratch with -fPIC, on the Linux (I'm using Fedora Workstation
>         25 on x86_64) I couldn't go forward without this step. So I
>         wrote some Dockerfile based on Debian 9, skipping first part
>         which is containing 'apt-get update' and installing
>         'build-essential' here is what I have:
>
>         COPY my-build.mk <http://my-build.mk> /my-build.mk
>         <http://my-build.mk>
>
>         RUN mkdir /compile && cd /compile \
>             && wget
>         https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.2/ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz
>         <https://downloads.haskell.org/%7Eghc/8.2.2/ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz>
>         \
>             && tar -xvf ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz \
>             && rm ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.xz \
>             && cd ghc-8.2.2/ \
>             && ./configure --prefix=/ghc-8.2.2-fpic
>         --disable-library-profiling --enable-shared \
>             && cp /my-build.mk <http://my-build.mk> mk/build.mk
>         <http://build.mk> \
>             && make install \
>             && cd /usr/local/bin \
>             && ls /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/bin/ | xargs -I{} ln -s
>         /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/bin/{}
>
>         And as you can see I just use my own prepared /my-build.mk
>         <http://my-build.mk>/ file which is:
>
>         SRC_HC_OPTS          = -H64m -O
>         EXTRA_HC_OPTS        = -fPIC
>         SRC_CC_OPTS          = -fPIC -O
>         GhcStage1HcOpts      = -fasm -O0
>         GhcStage2HcOpts      = -fasm -O0
>         GhcLibHcOpts         = -fasm -O2
>         GhcLibWays           = v dyn
>         DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = YES
>         DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT   = NO
>         SplitObjs            = NO
>         HADDOCK_DOCS         = NO
>         BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML   = NO
>         BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS     = NO
>         BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF    = NO
>         V                    = 1
>         LATEX_DOCS           = NO
>         HSCOLOUR_SRCS        = NO
>         BeConservative       = YES
>
>         I just combined it from parts I found in the internet during
>         searching answers to my questions. So I built this container,
>         I also installed dependencies by this commands:
>
>         cd /mnt
>         cabal update
>         cabal sandbox init
>         cabal install --enable-shared --ghc-option=-fPIC happy alex
>         cabal install --enable-shared --ghc-option=-fPIC
>         base-unicode-symbols filepath process directory lens
>         containers qm-interpolated-string
>
>         And when I tried to build my app by following commands (first
>         command compiles some C-code to automatically initialize
>         Haskell runtime, see link posted below, not sure if /-static/,
>         /-shared/ or /-fPIC/ means something here but it's work in
>         progress):
>
>         ghc -static -shared -fPIC -optc-DMODULE=Foo src/lib-autoinit.c
>         -outputdir builddir
>         ghc -package-db=SOME_CABALS_SANDBOX_PKGDB_DIR
>         --make-static-shared-fPIC src/Foo.hs
>         builddir/src/lib-autoinit.o -o builddir/libfoo.o -isrc
>         -outputdir builddir -Wall -O2
>
>         I failed with a lot of similar errors like this one:
>
>         /usr/bin/ld.gold: error:
>         /ghc-8.2.2-fpic/lib/ghc-8.2.2/ghc-prim-0.5.1.1/libHSghc-prim-0.5.1.1.a(Classes.o):
>         requires dynamic R_X86_64_PC32 reloc against 'stg_ap_0_fast'
>         which may overflow at runtime; recompile with -fPIC
>
>         What have I missed? What should I do to make this happen?
>
>         Any progress could be found here (Dockerfile, sources of
>         modules, build-scripts):
>         https://github.com/unclechu/haskell-experiment-shared-library-for-c-application
>         <https://github.com/unclechu/haskell-experiment-shared-library-for-c-application>
>         Related stack overflow issue:
>         https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47978884/how-do-i-recompile-ghc-with-fpic
>         <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47978884/how-do-i-recompile-ghc-with-fpic>
>
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