[Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

[Christian Maeder]

Hi, I was surprised to find a Solaris bindist. However, on our SunOS 
5.10 ./configure failed miserably.

-bash-3.2$ ./configure
checking for path to top of build tree... 
utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd-bindist: 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libraries/directory/dist-install/build:libraries/unix/dist-install/build:libraries/time/dist-install/build:libraries/old-locale/dist-install/build:libraries/filepath/dist-install/build:libraries/bytestring/dist-install/build:libraries/deepseq/dist-install/build:libraries/array/dist-install/build:libraries/base/dist-install/build:libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build:libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build:rts/dist/build:/opt/csw/lib: 
is not an identifier
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

This happens, because our /bin/sh is a "real" sh (and not a bash) that 
only allows to "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH" as a separate command.

The next failure was:
ld.so.1: ghc-pwd: fatal: libgmp.so.10: open failed: No such file or 
directory

So I had to extend LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually (by /opt/csw/lib). After 
this I got:
ld.so.1: ghc-pwd: fatal: relocation error: file 
libraries/unix/dist-install/build/libHSunix-2.7.0.0-ghc7.8.20140130.so: 
symbol clearenv: referenced symbol not found

Which of my libraries is wrong (or too old) despite a matching version 
number?
         libdl.so.1 =>    /lib/libdl.so.1
         libgmp.so.10 =>  /opt/csw/lib/libgmp.so.10
         libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
         librt.so.1 =>    /lib/librt.so.1
         libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
         libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /opt/csw/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
         libaio.so.1 =>   /lib/libaio.so.1
         libmd.so.1 =>    /lib/libmd.so.1

I had to give up! (I'll try to build it from sources if I find time.)

Cheers Christian

Am 03.02.2014 23:35, schrieb Austin Seipp:
> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1:
>
>      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc1/
>      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc1/html/
>
> This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS
> X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. There is a signed copy of
> the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG key (keyid
> 0x3B58D86F).
>
> We plan to make the 7.8.1 RC2 release quite soon, as we're aware of
> some existing issues.
>
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
>
>
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