GHC HEAD now needs extra tools to build libffi?

Tue Oct 3 18:17:23 UTC 2017

I pulled head this morning and built with no problems on a Mac.  I wonder
if you need to pull submodules as well (which I did) or if you're missing
some newly required dependency.

John

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Jakway <tjakway at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Anyone else getting linker errors?
>
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_uint64'
> chmod +x
> inplace/bin/runghc
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_uint32'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_uint16'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_uint8'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_sint64'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_sint32'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_sint16'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_sint8'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_double'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_float'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_pointer'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_type_void'
> /home/thomas/git/ghc-new/libraries/ghci/dist-install/
> build/libHSghci-8.3-ghc8.3.
> 20171003.so: error: undefined reference to 'ffi_prep_cif'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
> iserv/ghc.mk:108: recipe for target 'iserv/stage2_dyn/build/tmp/ghc-iserv-dyn'
> f
> ailed
> make[1]: *** [iserv/stage2_dyn/build/tmp/ghc-iserv-dyn] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> <<ghc: 2235737040 <(223)%20573-7040> bytes, 225 GCs, 21703308/57027464
> avg/max bytes residency (8 s
> amples), 150M in use, 0.000 INIT (0.000 elapsed), 1.432 MUT (1.681
> elapsed), 0.5
> 76 GC (0.651 elapsed) :ghc>>
> Makefile:122: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> This is after running
>
> make clean && make distclean && find . -name "*.o" -type f -delete && find
> . -name "*.hi" -type f -delete
>
> then
>
> ./boot && ./configure && make -j5
>
> (ghc-new is not a new checkout, this error is happening on a branch I'm
> working on, but one that doesn't touch the FFI)
>
> On 10/01/2017 07:09 PM, Moritz Angermann wrote:
>
> I hope this will be fixed with:
> https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4053 and https://
> phabricator.haskell.org/D4054
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2 Oct 2017, at 6:33 AM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Trying to build a fresh copy of GHC HEAD (at commit [1]) today failed
> for me with this error: [2]
>
>    /u/rgscott/Software/ghc4/libffi/build/missing: line 81: makeinfo:
> command not found
>    WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
>             You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
>             any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
>             You might want to install the Texinfo package:
>             <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
>             The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
>             using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
>             want to install GNU make:
>             <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
>
> On my Ubuntu machine, I was able to work around the issue by running:
>
>    apt-get install texinfo
>
> But I'm not sure if the texinfo requirement was expected or an
> unintended side effect of recent libffi changes. Do you know what's
> happening here Moritz?
>
> Best,
> Ryan S.
> -----
> [1] http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a73
> 0e63ddfa82
> [2] http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736
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