[Haskell-cafe] Horray, a ghc bug!

[David Fox]

The Debian libgmp package is named libgmp3 on Ubuntu, though I don't know
why.  Our GHC is patched to reflect this:

http://src.seereason.com/autobuilder-config/patches/ghc.diff


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>wrote:

> 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
>
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/**openssl-1.0.0/engines/libgmp.**so
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ssl/**engines/libgmp.so
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/**libgmp.so
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/**libgmp.so.10
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/**libgmp.so.10.0.2
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/**openssl-1.0.0/engines/libgmp.**so
>
> Here I already gave up.  Since compiling from source worked, I did not
> investigate further...
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>
> On 20.10.2013 02:23, David Fox wrote:
>
>> deb http://deb.seereason.com/**ubuntu <http://deb.seereason.com/ubuntu>precise-seereason main
>> deb-src http://deb.seereason.com/**ubuntu<http://deb.seereason.com/ubuntu>precise-seereason main
>>
>
> Ah, that is useful information.  Thanks!
>
>  On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Toby Hutton <toby at grusly.com
>> <mailto:toby at grusly.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:35:02PM -0400, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
>>      > Andreas Abel wrote:
>>      > > ...I am now compiling a ghc 7.6 (will take a while).
>>      > > Unfortunately,  7.4.1 is the last compiler with an easy binary
>>     install on
>>      > > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...
>>      >
>>      > Hmm? We are using the binary tarball for 7.6.3 on
>>      > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS extensively. The only trouble we ever
>>      > encountered was that when installing GHC on a VM
>>      > with a very minimal install of 12.04 64-bit, we had to
>>      > temporarily install the 32-bit versions of a few basic
>>      > Ubuntu system packages to get the GHC installer to
>>      > work. After that we returned the machine to single-arch
>>      > 64-bit and everything is fine.
>>      >
>>      > What problems have you encountered?
>>
>>     I think he's saying 'apt-get install ghc' will install 7.4.1.
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