[Haskell-cafe] ghc-7 -fPIC error

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

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On 30/04/13 03:05, Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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There's a separate mailing list for GHC that might prove a bit more
useful for GHC problems: glassgow-haskell-users

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Mateusz K.
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