GHC static binaries with glibc-2.12?

[Alexander Dunlap]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 03:23, Alexander Dunlap wrote:
>
>> I recently upgraded my Arch Linux system to glibc 2.12 and static
>> binaries compiled with GHC 6.12.3 all fail with the message
>> "mkTextEncoding: invalid argument (Invalid argument)". This did not
>> happen with glibc 2.11. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone
>> have any advice for debugging it?
>
> Probably something to do with iconv.  Doesn't iconv need to load its codec
> modules dynamically at runtime?
>
> Cheers,
>        Simon
>

Yes, it does, but strace seems to show that the program is looking in
the right place for the iconv libraries. Is there some way to step
through the code of a statically-linked program? I'm not sure how to
proceed debugging a Haskell-originated error that only occurs with
static linking (so I can't use the GHCi debugger).

Alex