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

Karel Gardas karel.gardas at centrum.cz
Wed Feb 5 22:43:02 UTC 2014


Hi Christian,

the bindist is compiled on Solaris 11.0 so probably of no use for you on 
Solaris 10. Also I needed to provide separate tarball of compiled and 
installed libgmp.so as the Solaris 11's provided does not satisfy GHC 
requirements and GHC refuses to use that...

Karel

On 02/ 5/14 04:28 PM, Christian Maeder wrote:
> 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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