Hi,

I am having trouble with precompiled binary http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.3/maeder/ghc-6.8.3-sparc-sun-solaris2.tar.bz2.

My first problem was that the machine is 64-bit SPARC while the binary seems to be 32-bit. Since the dynamically linked GHC binary requires additional .so files to run, any libs which I try to compile on the machine itself run into ELF class incompatibility errors. So I tried installing prebuilt packages from http://sunfreeware.com/, and spent a couple hours grokking the Solaris package system before I figured out how to extract the right files. Now I think I have the right libs installed, but when I try to run GHC, I get this:

-bash-3.00$ runhaskell Setup configure
ld.so.1: ghc-6.8.3: fatal: relocation error: file /home/.../lib/libncurses.so.5: symbol main: referenced symbol not found

(FYI, I got ncurses 5.6 from http://sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#ncurses.)

Any suggestions would be welcome, thanks in advance.


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Elliott Slaughter

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." - Frank Herbert



--
Elliott Slaughter

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." - Frank Herbert