#13974: Official FreeBSD 10.3 distribution should link against libutil.so.9, not libutil.so.8 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mqudsi | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: None | Version: 7.10.3 Resolution: fixed | 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: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by pgj): I do not think doing the builds on FreeBSD 11 would be the solution to this problem. The issue with {{{libutil.so}}} is due to the updates done in the FreeBSD base system between major versions 8.x and 10.x. The published binary distribution was built on FreeBSD 8.4 because that was the oldest supported version of FreeBSD at that time. That is a general practice to make it possible for FreeBSD users to use exactly the same binaries on multiple major versions, because there is a backward compatibility maintained between them. In order to use this distribution on a 10.3 system, one has to install the {{{misc/compat8x}}} package that contains the missing version of {{{libutil.so}}} (among many other older versions of libraries). Hence I would recommend to build the recent FreeBSD binary distributions on 10.3 instead as that is the [https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup oldest supported version at the moment] (until about April 30, 2018). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13974#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler