[GHC] #7890: Static linking of GHC 7.7 does not work correctly

[GHC]

#7890: Static linking of GHC 7.7 does not work correctly
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Reporter:  kazu-yamamoto            |          Owner:                  
    Type:  bug                      |         Status:  new             
Priority:  normal                   |      Component:  Compiler        
 Version:  7.7                      |       Keywords:                  
      Os:  Unknown/Multiple         |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Failure:  GHC doesn't work at all  |      Blockedby:                  
Blocking:                           |        Related:                  
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 "cabal install" with ghc-7.7.20130504 fails on Linux.

 One example:

 {{{
 % cabal install yesod
 Preprocessing library lifted-base-0.2.0.5...
 [1 of 6] Compiling System.Timeout.Lifted ( System/Timeout/Lifted.hs,
 dist/build/System/Timeout/Lifted.o )
 [2 of 6] Compiling Data.IORef.Lifted ( Data/IORef/Lifted.hs,
 dist/build/Data/IORef/Lifted.o )
 [3 of 6] Compiling Control.Concurrent.Chan.Lifted (
 Control/Concurrent/Chan/Lifted.hs,
 dist/build/Control/Concurrent/Chan/Lifted.o )
 [4 of 6] Compiling Control.Concurrent.MVar.Lifted (
 Control/Concurrent/MVar/Lifted.hs,
 dist/build/Control/Concurrent/MVar/Lifted.o )
 [5 of 6] Compiling Control.Exception.Lifted ( Control/Exception/Lifted.hs,
 dist/build/Control/Exception/Lifted.o )

 Control/Exception/Lifted.hs:83:1: Warning:
     The import of ‛Monad’ from module ‛Control.Monad’ is redundant
 [6 of 6] Compiling Control.Concurrent.Lifted (
 Control/Concurrent/Lifted.hs, dist/build/Control/Concurrent/Lifted.o )
 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSmonad-control-0.3.2.1-ghc7.7.20130504
 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHStransformers-base-0.4.1-ghc7.7.20130504
 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSbase-unicode-symbols-0.2.2.4-ghc7.7.20130504
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
 lifted-base-0.2.0.5 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
 ExitFailure 1
 }}}

 Another example:
 {{{
 % cabal install hlint
 Configuring uniplate-1.6.10...
 Building uniplate-1.6.10...
 Preprocessing library uniplate-1.6.10...
 [ 1 of 21] Compiling Data.Generics.Uniplate.Data.Instances (
 Data/Generics/Uniplate/Data/Instances.hs,
 dist/build/Data/Generics/Uniplate/Data/Instances.o )
 [ 2 of 21] Compiling Data.Generics.Uniplate.Internal.Utils (
 Data/Generics/Uniplate/Internal/Utils.hs,
 dist/build/Data/Generics/Uniplate/Internal/Utils.o )
 Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
 Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
 Loading package base ... linking ... done.
 Loading package array-0.4.0.2 ... linking ... done.
 Loading package deepseq-1.3.0.2 ... linking ... done.
 Loading package bytestring-0.10.3.0 ... linking ... done.
 Loading package text-0.11.3.1 ... <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for:
 libHStext-0.11.3.1.so (libHStext-0.11.3.1.so: cannot open shared object
 file: No such file or directory)
 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
 haskell-src-exts-1.13.5 failed during the building phase. The exception
 was:
 ExitFailure 1
 hlint-1.8.44 depends on uniplate-1.6.10 which failed to install.
 uniplate-1.6.10 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
 ExitFailure 1
 }}}

 But "cabal install --enable-shared" works well.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7890>
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