Running GHC 7.10.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

[Vanessa McHale]

GHC 7.10.3 works fine for me when I use the hvr ppa
https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc


On 09/05/2018 09:23 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use GHC 7.10.2 (the Debian 8 bindist from haskell.org) on Ubuntu
> 18.04. It's currently failing with linker errors when I compile `main = return
> ()`:
>
>     /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld:
> /home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-7.10.3-bin/lib/ghc-7.10.3/base_HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM/libHSbase-4.8.2.0-HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM.a(Base__5.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a
> PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
>     /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld:
> /home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-7.10.3-bin/lib/ghc-7.10.3/base_HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM/libHSbase-4.8.2.0-HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM.a(Base__125.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a
> PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
>     /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld:
> /home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-7.10.3-bin/lib/ghc-7.10.3/base_HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM/libHSbase-4.8.2.0-HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM.a(Signal__13.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a
> PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
>     /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld:
> /home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-7.10.3-bin/lib/ghc-7.10.3/base_HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM/libHSbase-4.8.2.0-HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM.a(Sync__199.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a
> PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
>     /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld:
> /home/omer/ghc_bins/ghc-7.10.3-bin/lib/ghc-7.10.3/base_HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM/libHSbase-4.8.2.0-HQfYBxpPvuw8OunzQu6JGM.a(Exception__170.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against symbol `stg_bh_upd_frame_info' can not
> be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
>
> I'm getting about 700 of these. Does anyone know a way to make GHC 7.10.2 work
> on Ubuntu 18.04? Not sure if related but the ld version is
>
>     ~ $ /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld --version
>     GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.30
>     Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>     This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
>     the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a
> later version.
>     This program has absolutely no warranty.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ömer
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