error building GHC Head

[Greg Weber]

I am informed that the google gold linker does not like relative paths
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635935

I uninstalled the gold linker and all is well now.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote:

> I just cloned GHC from github and tried to build it for the first time. I
> get the below result where the build tool says that existing object files
> are missing. I haven't touched a Makefile in a long time- help here is very
> appreciated.
>
> ===--- building final phase
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final all
> "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"   -H32m -O    -package-name ghc-prim-0.2.0.0
> -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/ghc-prim/.
> -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build
> -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen
> -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build
> -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/.
>  -optP-include
> -optPlibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package
> rts-1.0 -split-objs -package-name ghc-prim -XHaskell98 -XCPP -XMagicHash
> -XForeignFunctionInterface -XUnliftedFFITypes -XUnboxedTuples
> -XEmptyDataDecls -XNoImplicitPrelude -O2 -no-user-package-conf -rtsopts
> -odir libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hidir
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -stubdir
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hisuf hi -osuf  o -hcsuf hc -c
> libraries/ghc-prim/./GHC/CString.hs -o
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString.o
> /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__1.o
> /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/.o::CString(void)
> /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__3.o
> /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__4.o
> /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__5.o
> /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find
> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__6.o
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
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