#13974: Official FreeBSD 10.3 distribution should link against libutil.so.9, not libutitl.so.8 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mqudsi | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: None | Version: 7.10.3 Keywords: | Operating System: FreeBSD Architecture: x86_64 | Type of failure: Installing GHC (amd64) | failed Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The official distribution of GHC for FreeBSD, as retrieved from [0] attempts to link against libutil.so.8 FreeBSD 10.3 is actually built against libutil.so.9, and there is no /lib/libutil.so.8 (and no version 8 of the library available via the package manager/ports). Symlinking /lib/libutil.so.9 to /lib/libutil.so.8 appears to allow GHC to run without issue, but I can't guarantee the results. Since the distributed GHC tarball is specific to FreeBSD 10.3, it should probably link against libutil.so.9 as well. (I am completely new to Haskell/GHC and have no clue what "component" to tag this as. I was looking for a 'distribution' or 'packages' component, but can find none. My apologies in advance for tagging it as 'None') [0]: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_10_3.html -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13974 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler