GHC HEAD now needs extra tools to build libffi?

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Tue Oct 3 20:42:08 UTC 2017 

Can you confirm which commit you are on?

On October 3, 2017 4:36:48 PM EDT, Thomas Jakway <tjakway at nyu.edu> wrote:
>Not sure.  I ran `git submodule update --init --recursive` and git 
>status says everything's up to date.  I'm on Ubuntu 16.10.
>
>
>On 10/03/2017 02:17 PM, John Leo wrote:
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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 <http://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 <tel:%28223%29%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
>>>     <https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4053> and
>>>     https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4054
>>>     <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
>>>     <mailto: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/
>>>>     <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/
>>>>     <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/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82
>>>>    
><http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82>
>>>>     [2] http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736
>>>>     <http://lpaste.net/6716863452582772736>
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