[Haskell-cafe] Horray, a ghc bug!

[Carter Schonwald]

indeed, isn't the usual fix to make sure you've got the "dev" version of
the package name installed?


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>wrote:
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>> Hi, I tried the 64bit binary packages from
>>
>>   haskell.org/ghc
>>
>> but I got a complaint that
>>
>>   libgmp.so.3
>>
>> is not found on my system (and locate did not reveal it).  I have several
>> of these libgmp.so, but apparently not the right one
>>
>> locate libgmp.so
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> It's a side effect of the distro that these packages are built on. They
> have a libgmp.so.3 that configure finds/uses, but I think most distros no
> longer install that. Often times they do have a suitable libgmp and a
> symlink can fix the issue.
>
> What I do when I run into this is something roughly like this:
>
> 1. Run ldd on the executable that is complaining  (alternatively, you can
> use readelf -d), to find out what shared object is not being loaded
> correctly and get a hint of the expected path. If you can't figure out the
> path, then assume it will be the same path used by other .so files.
>
> 2. Find a close match, such as the ones you found with locate.
>
> 3. (Optional) install the necessary package because no close match is
> there.
>
> 4.  Create a symlink in the right place.
>
> Building from source is usually easier :)
>
> Jason
>
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