Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 RC 1

Hi Paul, On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 03:29:20PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:

Ian Lynagh wrote:

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On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:04:31PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:

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With all that, the first problem I hit was with utils/pwd/pwd. ./configure builds it by calling ghc without any special flags, so the binary can't find libgmp.so at runtime.

I think you need to tell the dynamic linker where to find it, e.g. by setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. See the dyld manpage for more information.

I'm on GNU/Linux, so it would be LD_LIBRARY_PATH for me.

Oh, sorry, for some reason I had it in my head that you were on OS X.

Yes, that would be another useable workaround for pwd. What about the other problems I mentioned?

I thought all your problems boiled down to binaries not being able to find libgmp.so at runtime? So I think this should fix them all. The build system assumes that the bootstrapping compiler knows how to build Haskell programs that can just be run.

Regardless of my problems, it seems like a build bug that SRC_HC_OPTS isn't used for some compilations. Is SRC_HC_OPTS meant to be used for all Haskell compilations in the build process, or am I misunderstanding its purpose?

You are probably right that it should technically be passed. Thanks Ian