From: Gabor Greif
I am getting linker errors when bootstrapping HEAD with a recent v7.7-20130220 GHC. This is a RHEL5 system:
"inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -package-name rts -shared -dynamic -dynload deploy -no-auto-link-packages -Lrts/dist/build -lffi -optl-Wl,-rpath -optl-Wl,'$ORIGIN' `cat rts/libs.depend` <<snip>> rts/dist/build/AutoApply.debug_dyn_o -o rts/dist/build/libHSrts_debug-ghc7.7.20130402.so /usr/bin/ld: rts/dist/build/Schedule.dyn_o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `StgRun' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The old binutils comes with RHEL5 fails to link a shared library if there is a reference to a hidden symbol that isn't locally defined. See: https://gist.github.com/phonohawk/5308015 Personally I don't think this is an old binutils' fault, because the newer one is essentially turning an otherwise global symbol to a local one depending on its call site, which feels rather wrong to me. The attached patch should fix the problem anyway. _______________________________________________________ - PHO - http://cielonegro.org/ OpenPGP public key: 1024D/1A86EF72 Fpr: 5F3E 5B5F 535C CE27 8254 4D1A 14E7 9CA7 1A86 EF72