#9673: ghc-7.8.3 fails to build on aarch64 -------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: juhpetersen | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: arm | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------+--------------------------------------- (I first mentioned this recently in ticket:7942#comment:42 but I thought better to open a new ticket for this.) I tried to build ghc-7.8.3 on aarch64 Linux (Fedora 21 development) with the patch from #7942, and ran into: {{{ "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" copy libraries/haskell2010 dist-install "strip" '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64' '/usr' '/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3' '/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' 'v dyn ' Installing library in /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/haskell2010-1.1.2.0 "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin /ghc-pkg" --force --global-package-db "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/package.conf.d" update rts/dist/package.conf.install Reading package info from "rts/dist/package.conf.install" ... done. rts-1.0: Warning: library-dirs: /usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/rts-1.0 doesn't exist or isn't a directory rts-1.0: Warning: include-dirs: /usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/include doesn't exist or isn't a directory rts-1.0: cannot find any of ["libHSrts.a","libHSrts.p_a","libHSrts- ghc7.8.3.so","libHSrts-ghc7.8.3.dylib","HSrts-ghc7.8.3.dll"] on library path (ignoring) "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" register libraries/ghc-prim dist-install "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin/ghc" "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin /ghc-pkg" "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3" '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64' '/usr' '/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3' '/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO Warning: cannot determine version of /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin /ghc-pkg : "" Registering ghc-prim-0.3.1.0... "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" register libraries/integer-gmp dist-install "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin/ghc" "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin /ghc-pkg" "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3" '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64' '/usr' '/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3' '/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO Warning: cannot determine version of /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/ghc-7.8.3-38.fc22.aarch64/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.3/bin /ghc-pkg : "" ghc-cabal: Installed package ID not registered: "ghc-prim-0.3.1.0-inplace" ghc.mk:901: recipe for target 'install_packages' failed Makefile:64: recipe for target 'install' failed make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 2 }}} The problem seems to be that the installed (dynlinked) ghc-pkg does give any output!! (eg "ghc-pkg --version" returns "", same for --help.) When I try the built binaries I find that ghc-7.8.3/utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg (which is statically linked) works normally (ie it outputs --help and --version) whereas $DESTDIR/$libdir/ghc-7.8.3/bin/ghc-pkg gives no output on stdout! A workaround is to build with DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS=NO (ticket:7942#comment:44) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9673 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler