#7819: FreeBSD without system libffi: Shared object "libffi.so.6" not found ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Build System | Version: 7.6.2 Keywords: | Os: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: Related: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ In #7806, kazu-yamamoto reported that on FreeBSD without a system libffi: GHC can be built: {{{ % make maintainer-clean % perl boot % ./configure --prefix=/ghc-head \ --with-iconv-includes=/usr/local/include \ --with-iconv-libraries=/usr/local/lib \ --with-gmp-includes=/usr/local/include \ --with-gmp-libraries=/usr/local/lib \ --with-gcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc47 \ --with-gcc-4.2=/usr/local/bin/gcc47 % gmake -j10 }}} But installation fails: {{{ % gmake install Installing library in /ghc-head/lib/ghc-7.7.20130323/haskell2010-1.1.1.0 "/ghc-head/lib/ghc-7.7.20130323/bin/ghc-pkg" --force --global-package-db "/ghc-head/lib/ghc-7.7.20130323/package.conf.d" update rts/package.conf.install Shared object "libffi.so.6" not found, required by "libHSrts- ghc7.7.20130323.so" gmake[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1 gmake: *** [install] Error 2 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7819 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler