I am getting the compilation error below when building GHC 7.0.4 on RHEL5 (x86_64) – I configured make to point to ncurses and libgmp. I will appreciated pointers on how to work around the issue below. I don’t have root privileges. My apologies if this has already been discussed in this forum. I searched for the issue but could find only the GHC bug ticket below. GHC bug ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4374 - it doesn’t have description on how to work around the bug. Compilation error: ----------------------- $ C_INCLUDE_PATH=/efs/dist/fsf/ncurses/5.6/common/include/ncurses:/home/saagrawa/scripts/misc/libgmp/include LIBRARY_PATH=/efs/dist/fsf/ncurses/5.6/exec/lib:/home/saagrawa/scripts/misc/libgmp/lib make ===--- updating makefiles phase 0 make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 just-makefiles ===--- updating makefiles phase 1 make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 just-makefiles ===--- updating makefiles phase 2 make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=2 just-makefiles ===--- updating makefiles phase 3 make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=3 just-makefiles ===--- finished updating makefiles make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk all "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/GHC/Integer.dyn_o libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/GHC/Integer/GMP/Internals.dyn_o libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/GHC/Integer/Type.dyn_o libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/cbits/gmp-wrappers.dyn_o libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/cbits/cbits.dyn_o libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/*.o `/usr/bin/find libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build -name "*_stub.dyn_o" -print` -shared -dynamic -dynload deploy -dylib-install-name /home/saagrawa/scripts/misc/ghc/7.0.4/lib/ghc-7.0.4/`basename "libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.3-ghc7.0.4.so" | sed 's/^libHS//;s/[-]ghc.*//'`/`basename "libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.3-ghc7.0.4.so"` -no-auto-link-packages -package ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 -o libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.3-ghc7.0.4.so /efs/dist/fsf/gcc/4.4.3-build004/.exec/x86-64.rhel.5/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.4.3/ld: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/aors.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `__gmpz_sub' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/aors.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.3-ghc7.0.4.so] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 $ ll /home/saagrawa/scripts/misc/libgmp/lib|awk '{print $9,$10,$11}' ### the libgmp lib folder has dynamic libraries libgmp.so.3.5.2* libgmp.so.3 -> libgmp.so.3.5.2* libgmp.so -> libgmp.so.3.5.2* libgmp.la* libgmp.a