On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03:44PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote:
./configure failed with:
checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory configure: error: cannot determine current directory
ldd utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0xb7718000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7713000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb76e9000) libffi.so.5 => not found libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0xb7693000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7689000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb751e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7745000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7503000)
Thanks for the report. This was because ghc-pwd was built by the bootstrapping compiler. I've fixed this in darcs now. Thanks Ian