problems running ghc-6.8.2 on solaris 10, sparc

[Daniil Elovkov]

Thank you Christian

It seems that an old gcc was the problem. I downloaded gcc 3.4.6 from
sunfreeware and it works ok.

Also, their precompiled gcc's at sunfreeware are configured to use sun
linker. It caused no problems at hello world Haskell program. I yet
have to check how it will behave with a quite big project. There were
serious problems with performance in the past, as we know.

Btw, the link you gave me is not on haskell.org/ghc. For 6.8.3 only
solaris-x86 is downloadable. That's why I grabbed 6.8.2 in the first
place.

Thanks for your ports!


2008/8/15 Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de>:
> Hi Daniil
>
> I have a binary dist here:
> http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/solaris/ghcs/ghc-6.8.3-sparc-sun-solaris2.tar.bz2
>
> that runs and was built with gcc-4.0.3 on Solaris 8 sparc. It runs under
>  Solaris 10 with gcc-4.2.2, too. (It also runs with gcc-3.4, but building
> fails as in #951). I've not tried gcc-2.95.
>
> my ldd output of ghc-6.8.3 is:
>        librt.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/librt.so.1
>        libreadline.so.5 =>      /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.5
>        libncurses.so.5 =>       /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5
>        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
>        libm.so.2 =>     /usr/local/lib/libm.so.2
>        libgmp.so.3 =>   /usr/local/lib/libgmp.so.3
>        libpthread.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
>        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>        libaio.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
>        libthread.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
>        /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libc_psr.so.1
>
> My "ld" is a Solaris Link Editors: 5.8-1.302 (resp. 5.10-1.489), but a
> gnu-linker should work, too. In fact gcc uses a gnu linker, i.e. my gcc was
> configured:
>  --with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/local/bin/gnu-as
>  --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/gnu-ld
>
> My build.mk file for building ghc contains:
>
> SRC_HC_OPTS += -optc-mcpu=ultrasparc -opta-mcpu=ultrasparc
>
> I've no idea what goes wrong for you, but maybe my above information helps
> you to figure this out yourself.
>
> Cheers Christian
>
> Daniil Elovkov wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks, Christian
>>
>> I'm trying to get ghc 6.8.2 running on Solaris 10 and having problems.
>> To be precise, I'm trying to compile a 'hello world' program by ghc
>> 6.8.2 which I got in binary form haskell.org.
>>
>> gcc is 2.95, it uses sun linker. I remember there were problems with
>> that in the past. Is ghc supposed to work only with gnu ld or sun ld
>> as well?
>>
>> So, how it went
>>
>> first I got compiler errors in many places of Reg.hs:
>>   global register variable follows a function definition
>>
>> Googling showed that Don Stewart used to fix it by swapping 2 includes
>> in Stg.h - putting MachRegs.h after Regs.h instead of before. It
>> helped
>>
>> Then there was assembler error:
>>     cannot use v8plus instructions in a non-v8plus target binary
>>
>> It was caused by -mcpu=v9, which ghc passes to gcc. I blindly added
>> -optc -mcpu=v8 and it helped :)
>>
>> Then the linker complained that it could not resolve aio_fork and
>> __aio_suspend64, referenced from librt.so.
>>
>> -lrt is passed by ghc to the linker. On this machine there is
>> /lib/libaio.so. Linking with it didn't help. It doesn't really contain
>> exactly those functions, only with slightly different names, like
>> _aio_forkinit, _libaio_fork.
>>
>> Also, librt which was linked in was the one lying close to where gcc
>> is installed. Apart from that, there is also librt.so in /lib. I
>> thought, maybe the wrong librt was used and said -optl -L/lib to link
>> against the one in /lib.
>>
>> No complaints, but the resulting binary segfaults.
>>
>> Does anybody have any ideas?
>>
>>
>



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Daniil Elovkov