Leopard: ghc 6.8.1 and the case of the missing _environ
Symptoms: You build 6.8.1 from source on Leopard (x86 in my case) and then junior:ghc-6.8.1 joelr$ ghci GHCi, version 6.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghc-6.8.1: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.1/lib/base-3.0.0.0/HSbase-3.0.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_environ' Loading package base ... linking ... ghc-6.8.1: unable to load package `base' Problem: ghc binaries are being stripped upon installation which eliminates _environ, e.g. junior:tmp joelr$ nm x|grep environ 00002ff0 T ___hscore_environ 0004d004 D _environ junior:tmp joelr$ strip x junior:tmp joelr$ nm x|grep environ Solution: Need to make sure install-sh does _not_ use the -s option. Haven't found out where this needs to be done yet. A temporary workaround is to ask Manuel for the pre-built binaries. Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com
Joel Reymont wrote:
Symptoms:
You build 6.8.1 from source on Leopard (x86 in my case) and then
junior:ghc-6.8.1 joelr$ ghci GHCi, version 6.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghc-6.8.1: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.1/lib/base-3.0.0.0/HSbase-3.0.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_environ' Loading package base ... linking ... ghc-6.8.1: unable to load package `base'
Problem:
ghc binaries are being stripped upon installation which eliminates _environ, e.g.
junior:tmp joelr$ nm x|grep environ 00002ff0 T ___hscore_environ 0004d004 D _environ
junior:tmp joelr$ strip x junior:tmp joelr$ nm x|grep environ
Solution:
Need to make sure install-sh does _not_ use the -s option. Haven't found out where this needs to be done yet. A temporary workaround is to ask Manuel for the pre-built binaries.
MacOS folks: is this still an issue? If so, could someone create a ticket? Cheers, Simon
MacOS folks: is this still an issue? If so, could someone create a ticket?
Cheers, Simon
The issue for MacOS (10.5 Leopard) on powerpc is still http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1843 But we suspect that there is more than one issue, since my patch for the "unknown scattered relocation type 4" does not, in fact, fix everything. -- Chris
Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
MacOS folks: is this still an issue? If so, could someone create a ticket?
Cheers, Simon
The issue for MacOS (10.5 Leopard) on powerpc is still http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1843
But we suspect that there is more than one issue, since my patch for the "unknown scattered relocation type 4" does not, in fact, fix everything.
Yes, I've been following that discussion. But what I'm asking about is whether the issue that Joel raised about _environ is something that we need to track/fix separately - I don't remember seeing any further discussion about it. Cheers, Simon
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