How do I build basic GHC packages with -fPIC?

Alberto Valverde alberto at toscat.net
Thu Dec 28 13:03:40 UTC 2017


I think you need place the build.mk in it's place before running GHC's
configure script.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Viacheslav Lotsmanov <
lotsmanov89 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I took my build.mk and just replaced lines with SRC_HC_OPTS and
> SRC_CC_OPTS with ones from your example:
>
> SRC_HC_OPTS += -fPIC
> SRC_CC_OPTS += -fPIC
>
> And also I run every `cabal install` with `--ghc-option=-fPIC
> --ghc-option=-optc-fPIC` but still gets the same errors:
>
> /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
> /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
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
>
> Is it even possible?
>
> On 12/28/2017 03:24 AM, Viacheslav Lotsmanov wrote:
>
> I've tried to replace my whole *build.mk <http://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>
> 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 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> 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 /my-build.mk
>>>
>>> RUN mkdir /compile && cd /compile \
>>>     && wget https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.2/ghc-8.2.2-src.tar.x
>>> z \
>>>     && 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 \
>>>     && 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/ha
>>> skell-experiment-shared-library-for-c-application
>>> Related stack overflow issue: https://stackoverflow.com/ques
>>> tions/47978884/how-do-i-recompile-ghc-with-fpic
>>>
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