I've had a lot of trouble installing the pre-build binary of GHC on various Linux systems for which packages don't exist - all of this stems from GHC looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3. Various combinations of --with-gmp-libraries haven't helped, particularly as I need a packaged build for copying onto shared machines where I don't have enough disk space to install from the binary package locally, and don't have root access to create a shortcut in /usr/lib64. Is it possible for someone to recompile the pre-build binaries, linked against a specific version of libgmp, instead of a default which happens to be on their machine? Or is there some other solution to my predicament? -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Installing-GHC-and-libgmp-so-tp5733330.... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote:
all of this stems from GHC looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3
Most systems symlink libgmp.so to the default version installed. On Debian stable it's libgmp.so.10 ... so it may work for you, but you may want to upgrade. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph
Stephen Paul Weber wrote
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote:
all of this stems from GHC looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3
Most systems symlink libgmp.so to the default version installed. On Debian stable it's libgmp.so.10 ... so it may work for you, but you may want to upgrade.
It's not symlinked on the systems that I'm working with (mostly CentOS and Red Hat - I'm not disputing that it might work on "most" systems). I also need to install GHC on systems where I don't have root access, so I can't create the link. Could GHC be configured to look for libgmp.so.3, or whatever version it was actually linked against, if it can't find libgmp.so? -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Installing-GHC-and-libgmp-so-tp5733330p... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, harry
Could GHC be configured to look for libgmp.so.3, or whatever version it was actually linked against, if it can't find libgmp.so?
Linux ld.so doesn't work that way. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
Brandon Allbery wrote
Linux ld.so doesn't work that way.
What does the --with-gmp-libraries option do? I've tried using it with a local shortcut, but it didn't help. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Installing-GHC-and-libgmp-so-tp5733330p... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote:
Stephen Paul Weber wrote
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote: I also need to install GHC on systems where I don't have root access, so I can't create the link.
You can create the link somewhere else, and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH I have done this before. If your version of libgmp is compatible, it should work. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph
Stephen Paul Weber wrote
You can create the link somewhere else, and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH I have done this before. If your version of libgmp is compatible, it should work.
Thank you - that worked! -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Installing-GHC-and-libgmp-so-tp5733330p... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Paul Weber < singpolyma@singpolyma.net> wrote:
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote:
all of this stems from GHC looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3
Most systems symlink libgmp.so to the default version installed. On Debian stable it's libgmp.so.10 ... so it may work for you, but you may want to upgrade.
Actually, the unversioned .so is often in a -dev package. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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