I had the same problem on Debian Squeeze:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8666

What is your distro?

CCing ghc-devs.

Janek

Dnia czwartek, 6 lutego 2014, Sergei Meshveliani napisa³:
> Dear GHC team,
>
> I am trying to test    ghc-7.8.20140130-src.tar.bz2
>
> I make it from source with   ghc-7.6.3  on Debian Linux (64 bit).
>
> ./configure  looks all right.
>
> And `make' reports after 40 minutes:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> ...
> "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -optc-Ilibraries/integer-gmp/.
> -optc-I'/home/mechvel/g.....
> ...
> ...
> /usr/bin/ld: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/aors.o: relocation
> R_X86_64_32 against `__gmpz_sub' can not be used when making a shared
> object; recompile with -fPIC
> libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/aors.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: ***
> [libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/libHSinteger-gmp-0.5.1.0\
> -ghc7.8.20140130.so] Error 1
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> What might this mean? Need I to install a fresher  libgmp ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ------
> Sergei
>
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