Cabal reports mismatched interface file ways dyn

[Matthew Pickering]

Does the quick flavour build the dynamic libraries?

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:07 AM Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
<ml at stefansf.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to compile GHC 8.6.5 using the LLVM backend and dynamic linking. My
> build.mk file looks as follows:
>
> include mk/flavours/quick-llvm.mk
> DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = YES
>
> I can build a stage3 compiler. However while executing `make install` the
> following error shows up:
>
> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" register libraries/ghc-prim dist-install "/devel/ghc86/lib/ghc-8.6.5/bin/ghc" "/devel/ghc86/lib/ghc-8.6.5/bin/ghc-pkg" "/devel/ghc86/lib/ghc-8.6.5" '' '/devel/ghc86' '/devel/ghc86/lib/ghc-8.6.5' '/devel/ghc86/share/doc/ghc-8.6.5/html/libraries' NO
> ghc-cabal: '/devel/ghc86/lib/ghc-8.6.5/bin/ghc' exited with an error:
> Bad interface file: dist-install/build/GHC/CString.hi
> mismatched interface file ways (wanted "dyn", got "")
>
> I found similar reports [1,2] from 2013 but no solution. Any ideas how to fix
> this?
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
> [1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-December/003488.html
> [2] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-December/003507.html
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