[GHC] #14512: System-wide installed profile build cannot load libHSghc-prim.0.5.2.0.so

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#14512: System-wide installed profile build cannot load libHSghc-prim.0.5.2.0.so
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        Reporter:  tdammers          |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.8.1
       Component:  Build System      |              Version:  8.3
  (make)                             |
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:  x86_64
 Type of failure:  Compile-time      |  (amd64)
  crash or panic                     |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):
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Comment (by _deepfire):

 I didn't go all the way to narrow down the reproduction, but here is
 another potential case for this:  https://github.com/goldfirere/th-
 desugar/issues/96

 To quote:
 {{{
 [11 of 11] Compiling Language.Haskell.TH.Desugar.Lift (
 Language/Haskell/TH/Desugar/Lift.hs,
 dist/build/Language/Haskell/TH/Desugar/Lift.p_o )
 Preprocessing test suite 'spec' for th-desugar-1.8..
 Building test suite 'spec' for th-desugar-1.8..
 [1 of 4] Compiling Splices          ( Test/Splices.hs, dist/build/spec
 /spec-tmp/Splices.o )
 [2 of 4] Compiling DsDec            ( Test/DsDec.hs, dist/build/spec/spec-
 tmp/DsDec.o )

 <no location info>: error:
     ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
   (GHC version 8.6.1 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
         Dynamic linker not initialised

 Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

 [3 of 4] Compiling Dec              ( Test/Dec.hs, dist/build/spec/spec-
 tmp/Dec.o )

 <no location info>: error:
     <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: /run/user/1000/nix-build-th-
 desugar-1.8.drv-0/source/dist/build/libHSth-desugar-1.8
 -KFOywxTzF8CA5cwAvr5NgA-ghc8.6.1.so (/run/user/1000/nix-build-th-
 desugar-1.8.drv-0/source/dist/build/libHSth-desugar-1.8
 -KFOywxTzF8CA5cwAvr5NgA-ghc8.6.1.so: undefined symbol:
 thzmdesugarzm1zi8zmKFOywxTzzF8CA5cwAvr5NgA_LanguageziHaskellziTHziDesugarziAST_DAppPr_closure)
 builder for '/nix/store/yn634096vg0ih9mk35f2kx3hv80rx71v-th-
 desugar-1.8.drv' failed with exit code 1
 error: build of '/nix/store/yn634096vg0ih9mk35f2kx3hv80rx71v-th-
 desugar-1.8.drv' failed

 [nix-shell:~/holotype]$ cat pkgs/def/github/th-desugar.rev
 1d164b669079fe57181af95bbbe4749dbf08ab78

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