On 25/08/13 13:48, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
I had trouble installing the generic 64-bit Linux tarball for 7.6.3. With some help from Ian, who pointed out that the problem was related to ld-linux.so, I finally figured out the root of the problem: the installation requires *both* the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of libc6 plus deps to be available.
Once the installation was complete, I could then remove the 32-bit libs and ghc still seems to work. It appears that the 32-bit libs are only required for some of the auxiliary executables that come with the tarball, such as ghc-pwd.
Is there any reason in principle that we only allow 64-bit GHC to be installed on multiarch Linux? That seems like a rather arbitrary restriction.
It's certainly a bug. Do you know which executable is 32-bit? Cheers, Simon