[GHC] #738: ghc can't load files with selinux Enforcing

[Simon Marlow]

Jens Petersen wrote:
>  >> Perhaps someone who knows SELinux would like to describe how to set up
>  >> an exception for GHC so we can put it in the FAQ?
> 
> I have added:
> 
>   /usr/bin/chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t /path/to/binary/prog
> 
> to the %post install scripts of the darcs and haddock packages in Fedora 
> Extras for now, and will do the same for the ghc package (it needs it 
> for more programs).
> 
> This avoids having to set allow_execmem system wide.
> 
>> I just wonder if the ghc case is harder since programs compiled by ghc
> 
>  > using the rts need exceptions too not just ghc itself.
> 
> Of course if the RTS was a shared library on Linux, then probably just 
> its .so file would need to have execmem context set.

I have added this information to the FAQ, thanks.

Cheers,
	Simon