Hi everyone. I'm trying to build GHC 6.8.3 on a Solaris 8 machine. I'd love to upgrade Solaris to 10, which I believe would solve the problem I'm having by making /usr/lib/libm.so.2 available, but that's not an option at this time. Here's the output of uname -a on the system. SunOS bwddev1 5.8 Generic_117350-53 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 The GCC I'm using is gcc Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 Configured with: /usr/local/src/gnu/gcc-4.0.1/configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls --prefix=/usr/local/gcc4 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.1 The GHC binary I'm bootstrapping with is 6.4.1. It works fine for compiling complex haskell programs and packages. I've already worked through a couple of problems to get to where I'm at now. What I had to do was... changed #define SIZET_FMT "d" to #define SIZET_FMT "d" in includes/mkDerivedConstances.c. change #include to #include in includes/HsFFI.h added mk/build.mk containing SRC_HC_OPTS=-opta-mcpu=v9 My latest attempt at a build involved the following, where BOS_ROOT points at the root of my build tree, and $BOS_ROOT/gcc4 is where my gcc lives, and $BOS_ROOT/ghc is where the ghc binary lives. This is only the latest attempt. The libm.so.2 symbolic link and the LDFLAGS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH values were added on the most recent attempt. ln -s /usr/lib/libm.so.1 $BOS_ROOT/lib/libm.so.2 PATH=$BOS_ROOT/gcc4/bin:$BOS_ROOT/ghc/bin:$BOS_ROOT/bin:/usr/bin:/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$BOS_ROOT/gcc4/lib:$BOS_ROOT/ghc/lib:$BOS_ROOT/lib:/usr/lib LDFLAGS=-static -L$BOS_ROOT/lib CFLAGS= export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH LDFLAGS CFLAGS fp_prog_ld_raw=/usr/ccs/bin/ld ./configure \ --prefix=$BOS_ROOT \ --with-ghc=$BOS_ROOT/ghc/bin/ghc \ --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as \ --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld \ --with-gcc=$BOS_ROOT/gcc4/bin/gcc \ --with-gmp-includes=$BOS_ROOT/include \ --with-gmp-libraries=$BOS_ROOT/lib \ --with-readline-includes=$BOS_ROOT/include \ --with-readline-libraries=$BOS_ROOT/lib Once I made these changes, the build goes on for a number of hours then dies with what's listed below. I understand that this is because the build is looking for libm.so.2, while the lib on Solaris 8 is /usr/lib/libm.so.1. No matter what I do - including the kludge above attempting to create a libm.so.2 symbolic link, I can't get rid of the errors. Any help at all would be very much appreciated. Please. Here's the error listing. make[3]: Entering directory `/winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/compiler' ../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -no-user-package-conf -opta-mcpu=v9 -package ghc -Istage2 -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -Rghc-timing -DGHCI -threaded -fforce-recomp -c main/Main.hs -o stage2/main/Main.o -ohi stage2/main/Main.hi <> ../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -no-user-package-conf -o stage2/ghc-6.8.3 -opta-mcpu=v9 -package ghc -Istage2 -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -Rghc-timing -DGHCI -threaded -fforce-recomp stage2/main/Main.o Undefined first referenced symbol in file cosf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__169.o) expf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__173.o) logf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__172.o) powf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__161.o) sinf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__170.o) tanf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__168.o) acosf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__166.o) asinf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__167.o) atanf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__165.o) coshf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__163.o) dlsym /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/rts/libHSrts_thr.a(Linker.thr_o) (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1) sinhf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__164.o) tanhf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__162.o) sqrtf /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/libraries/base/dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.2.0.a(Float__171.o) dlopen /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/rts/libHSrts_thr.a(Linker.thr_o) (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1) dlerror /winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/rts/libHSrts_thr.a(Linker.thr_o) (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to stage2/ghc-6.8.3 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status <> make[3]: *** [stage2/ghc-6.8.3] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/compiler' make[2]: *** [stage2/ghc-6.8.3] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3/compiler' make[1]: *** [stage2] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/winchester/bwd_home/rc4498/cvs_sandboxes/wip/bos-devel/bos/src/ghc-6.8.3' make: *** [bootstrap2] Error 2 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- My web host for www.ralphcrawford.org is... http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6466911 They're good - I recommend them. I'm switching my email from stryder22204@yahoo.com to stryder100@gmail.com. Don't worry though I'll still get stuff from the stryder22204 address for about 6 months.