#15945: Unable to compile GHC from source on OpenBSD (-CURRENT) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: klomeli | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.6.3 Component: Build System | Version: 8.6.2 (make) | Keywords: clang | Operating System: OpenBSD Architecture: x86_64 | Type of failure: Building GHC (amd64) | failed Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I am running the following script to build GHC from sources (ghc-8.6.2-src.tar.xz) on OpenBSD (-CURRENT): {{{ #! /bin/sh set -e BUILD_DIR=/usr/local/tmp-build-ghc export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69 export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.16 if [ ! -n "$1" ]; then echo "ERROR: Provide path for ghc source." exit 1 fi echo "Extracting ghc source files from ${1} to ${BUILD_DIR} ..." mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR cd $BUILD_DIR xzcat $1 | tar xvf - GHC_DIR=`ls | grep ghc` cd $GHC_DIR echo "Cleaning up OpenBSD-incompatible commands..." find . -type f | xargs sed -i -e 's|^ln -f -v |ln -f |' echo "Building GHC... " export CC=/usr/bin/clang ./boot ./configure --with-iconv-libraries=/usr/local/lib \ --with-iconv-includes=/usr/local/include \ --with-gmp-libraries=/usr/local/lib \ --with-gmp-includes=/usr/local/include \ --with-ffi-libraries=/usr/local/lib \ --with-ffi-includes=/usr/local/include \ --with-system-libffi gmake }}} I will file a separate bug report for the **ln** incompatibility with the unsupported **-v** flag. When compiling GHC, I get the following error: {{{ ... "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -optc-fno-stack-protector -optc-Wall -optc-Wall -optc-Wextra -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc- Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return -optc- Wpointer-arith -optc-Wmissing-noreturn -optc-Wnested-externs -optc- Wredundant-decls -optc-Wundef -optc-Iincludes -optc-Iincludes/dist -optc- Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -optc-Iincludes/dist- ghcconstants/header -optc-Irts -optc-Irts/dist/build -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-DFS_NAMESPACE=rts -optc-fno-strict-aliasing -optc-fno-common -optc- Irts/dist/build/./autogen -optc-Wno-unknown-pragmas -optc-O2 -optc-fomit- frame-pointer -optc-g -optc-DRtsWay=\"rts_v\" -optc-ffunction-sections -optc-fdata-sections -static -H32m -O -Wall -Iincludes -Iincludes/dist -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist- ghcconstants/header -Irts -Irts/dist/build -DCOMPILING_RTS -DFS_NAMESPACE=rts -this-unit-id rts -dcmm-lint -i -irts -irts/dist/build -Irts/dist/build -irts/dist/build/./autogen -Irts/dist/build/./autogen -O2 -Wcpp-undef -Wnoncanonical- monad-instances -c rts/RtsSymbols.c -o rts/dist/build/RtsSymbols.o rts/RtsSymbols.c:990:1: error: error: redefinition of '_DYNAMIC' as different kind of symbol | 990 | RTS_OPENBSD_ONLY_SYMBOLS | ^ RTS_OPENBSD_ONLY_SYMBOLS ^ rts/RtsSymbols.c:283:22: error: note: expanded from macro 'RTS_OPENBSD_ONLY_SYMBOLS' SymE_NeedsProto(_DYNAMIC) ^ | 283 | SymE_NeedsProto(_DYNAMIC) | ^ /usr/include/sys/exec_elf.h:765:17: error: note: previous definition is here | 765 | extern Elf_Dyn _DYNAMIC[]; | ^ extern Elf_Dyn _DYNAMIC[]; ^ 1 error generated. `clang' failed in phase `C Compiler'. (Exit code: 1) gmake[1]: *** [rts/ghc.mk:315: rts/dist/build/RtsSymbols.o] Error 1 gmake: *** [Makefile:127: all] Error 2 }}} Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks! -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15945 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler