[GHC] #13974: Official FreeBSD 10.3 distribution should link against libutil.so.9, not libutil.so.8

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#13974: Official FreeBSD 10.3 distribution should link against libutil.so.9, not
libutil.so.8
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        Reporter:  mqudsi            |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  closed
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.1
       Component:  None              |              Version:  7.10.3
      Resolution:  fixed             |             Keywords:
Operating System:  FreeBSD           |         Architecture:  x86_64
 Type of failure:  Installing GHC    |  (amd64)
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Comment (by pgj):

 I do not think doing the builds on FreeBSD 11 would be the solution to
 this problem.

 The issue with {{{libutil.so}}} is due to the updates done in the FreeBSD
 base system between major versions 8.x and 10.x.  The published binary
 distribution was built on FreeBSD 8.4 because that was the oldest
 supported version of FreeBSD at that time.  That is a general practice to
 make it possible for FreeBSD users to use exactly the same binaries on
 multiple major versions, because there is a backward compatibility
 maintained between them.  In order to use this distribution on a 10.3
 system, one has to install the {{{misc/compat8x}}} package that contains
 the missing version of {{{libutil.so}}} (among many other older versions
 of libraries).

 Hence I would recommend to build the recent FreeBSD binary distributions
 on 10.3 instead as that is the
 [https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup oldest supported
 version at the moment] (until about April 30, 2018).

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