[Haskell-cafe] Problems with Stack on Gentoo Linux

[Michael Snoyman]

Please see this issue on the Stack issue tracker:

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/793

The summary is:

* `export LANG=en_US.UTF-8` or equivalent
* The next GHC release is already patched so that this won't be necessary

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Nicola Gigante <nicola.gigante at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I’m sorry if this is not the right list to ask, I was unsure.
>
> I’m having problems compiling a project with stack on a Gentoo machine.
> I only have shell access to the machine, so I don’t have too much info
> about it,
> but the admin assured me that everything is up to date.
>
> I’ve upgraded to the latest stack, but the problem was also present with
> 0.1.4.
> While doing stack build on my project with resolver lts 3.10 I get the
> following
> strange error:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --  While building package transformers-base-0.4.4 using:
>
> /home/gigabytes/.stack/setup-exe-cache/setup-Simple-Cabal-1.22.4.0-x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.2
> --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.4.0/ build
> --ghc-options " -ddump-hi -ddump-to-file"
>     Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
>     Logs have been written to: /home/gigabytes/
> gigabytes.it/.stack-work/logs/transformers-base-0.4.4.log
>
>     Configuring transformers-base-0.4.4...
>     Building transformers-base-0.4.4...
>     Preprocessing library transformers-base-0.4.4...
>     [1 of 1] Compiling Control.Monad.Base ( src/Control/Monad/Base.hs,
> .stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.4.0/build/Control/Monad/Base.o )
>
>     src/Control/Monad/Base.hs:22:1: Warning:
>         The import of `Data.Monoid' is redundant
>           except perhaps to import instances from `Data.Monoid'
>         To import instances alone, use: import Data.Monoid()
>
>     src/Control/Monad/Base.hs:24:1: Warning:
>         The import of `Control.Applicative' is redundant
>           except perhaps to import instances from `Control.Applicative'
>         To import instances alone, use: import Control.Applicative()
>
> .stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.4.0/build/src/Control/Monad/Base.dump-hi:
> commitBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Note that the warnings are not stopping the compile process themselves,
> but they somehow trigger the last error which kills the compiler.
>
> Stack is using the system-installed GHC here, which is version 7.10.2 (of
> course, otherwise stack wouldn’t have selected it).
> Maybe the system-wide compiler wasn’t installed properly (I doubt it,
> since the admin told me
> he uses a Gentoo package manager which is written in haskell and
> everything works well).
> So I’ve tried installing a stack-local GHC version, but I get a sanity
> check error:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The GHC located at
> /home/gigabytes/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc failed to
> compile a sanity check. Please see:
>
>
> https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/blob/release/doc/install_and_upgrade.md
>
> for more information. Exception was:
> Running /home/gigabytes/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc
> /tmp/stack-sanity-check22752/Main.hs -no-user-package-db exited with
> ExitFailure 1
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             (
> /tmp/stack-sanity-check22752/Main.hs, /tmp/stack-sanity-check22752/Main.o )
> Linking /tmp/stack-sanity-check22752/Main ...
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> /tmp/stack-sanity-check22752/Main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against
> `stg_bh_upd_frame_info' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /tmp/stack-sanity-check22752/Main.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> So to recap:
> - The system-wide ghc crashes compiling transformers-base-0.4.4
> - The stack-local ghc does not pass a sanity check
>
>
> On an OS X machine, the project compiles and work very well with the same
> stack and ghc versions and the same LTS, so I suppose this has to do with
> Gentoo.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
> Nicola
>
>
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