[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 207, Issue 16

Sylvain Henry sylvain at haskus.fr
Thu Nov 19 10:38:36 UTC 2020


On 19/11/2020 01:48, Sumit Raja wrote:
>
>     It may be that you have a dependency of this specific test (or the
>     test
>     itself) that has the following stanza in its Cabal file:
>     "extra-libraries: gmp"
>
>
> Thanks, makes sense. Any shortcuts to try and find which package has 
> gmp enabled?
>
You may grep for "gmp" in your "package.conf.d". A usual suspect is 
"bitvec" which has a "libmp" flag that you can disable.

> Interestingly this problem doesn't happen with ghc-8.6.5. Does build 
> order decide on if this issue is triggered or not?
>
I don't think so. My guess would be that using 8.6.5 changes the build 
plan (e.g. earlier versions of "bitvec" didn't explicitly link with gmp).

Cheers,
Sylvain

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