Dominick Samperi wrote:
It turns out that the undefined reference to libHSprimitive-0.5.4.0.so when installing pandoc is not related to the use of CentOS or Debian binaries. I get the same undefined reference when I try to use ghc-7.8.4 compiled from source under Fedora 21. Here is the output of 'locate libHSprimitive':
/usr/lib64/ghc-7.6.3/primitive-0.5.0.1/libHSprimitive-0.5.0.1-ghc7.6.3.so /usr/lib64/ghc-7.6.3/primitive-0.5.0.1/libHSprimitive-0.5.0.1.a /usr/lib64/ghc-7.6.3/primitive-0.5.0.1/libHSprimitive-0.5.0.1_p.a
So there is a .a library, but no .so (shared) lib in the build from source. Can someone explain how to get the build process to create all necessary shared libs? Try adding `--enable-shared` to your cabal command to build the shared object libraries. You might have to tell cabal to reinstall your existing
/home/dsamperi/.cabal/lib/primitive-0.5.4.0/ghc-7.8.4/libHSprimitive-0.5.4.0.a primitive-0.5.4.0 or blow away your ~/.cabal and ~/.ghc directories. HTH Peter