[Haskell-cafe] ghc-7 -fPIC error

[Christopher Howard]

Hey guys, this probably isn't the official GHC mailing list, but I've
been trying to build and install a new GHC on an old RHEL5 system, as
mentioned in my previous Cafe thread. I was able to make some good
headway: I installed a ghc-6.8 binary, and then used that to build
ghc-6.10 source, and then used that to build ghc-6.12 source. The idea
is to keep going until I get to ghc-7.6.

However, when I get to 7.0, my builds all eventually die with this error:

quote:
--------
/usr/bin/ld: rts/dist/build/RtsStartup.dyn_o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32
against `StgRun' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile
with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--------

After this failed the first time, I tried adding -fPIC to SRC_HC_OPTS,
GhcStage1HcOpts, and so forth in build.mk. But ultimately I get the same
error.

I tried skipping a version and building ghc-7.2 instead, but the same
error pops up.

-- 
frigidcode.com

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