[GHC] #7375: Building ghc fails because it is looking for an old version of libgmp

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#7375: Building ghc fails because it is looking for an old version of libgmp
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  Reporter:  mimosa               |          Owner:                  
      Type:  bug                  |         Status:  closed          
  Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:                  
 Component:  Compiler             |        Version:  7.4.2           
Resolution:  fixed                |       Keywords:                  
        Os:  Linux                |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  Building GHC failed  |     Difficulty:  Unknown         
  Testcase:                       |      Blockedby:                  
  Blocking:                       |        Related:  5743            
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * status:  new => closed
  * difficulty:  => Unknown
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 It is probably the case that some of the distributions on
 `http://www.haskell.org/ghc` depend on `libgmp.so.3`, which I have on my
 systems because I have older GHC binaries that depend on it.  Newer
 releases shouldn't depend on `libgmp.so.3` though - I just checked and my
 current builds aren't depending on it.

 In any case, on Linux the best place to get GHC from is your distro, which
 will have a GHC correctly built for whatever is the right GMP version on
 your system.  On Ubuntu 12.04 for example, the `ghc` package depends on
 `libgmp.so.10`.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7375#comment:2>
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