Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

Hi Paul, On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 05:02:28PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:

Ian Lynagh wrote:

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I'm confused. If the bootstrapping GHC uses a gmp from a non-standard directory, then that directory should be listed in the "library-dirs" field of the rts package.

Running "strings" on the bootstrap compiler's lib/ghc-6.8.3/libHSrts* shows some references to the gmp include directory, but none to the library directory. I can try rebuilding 6.8.3, keeping the build directory for inspection afterwards to see what's happening there.

Running ghc-pkg describe rts will show you library-dirs, amongst other things. If that's the problem then you should be able to edit /usr/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf or similar, and add the directory to the libraryDirs of the rts package entry. Thanks Ian