GHC on Salix

[GJones]

Has anyone had any luck getting GHC installed on a Salix system? Last I tried, the Slackbuild failed and the binary distribution was built with an incompatible version of glibc... If any of you managed to get it working, how did you pull it off?

[thenktor]

What is GHC and why did it fail? Some more input please

[GJones]

Sorry, GHC = Glasgow Haskell Compiler. I'll see about getting the failure message again, gimme a little time.

[GJones]

It's the same message from the Slackbuild as from the binary distribution:

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checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

Current system version is libgmp.so.10.0.1. libgmp.so.3 is not available from any package in the repos.

[mimosa]

See the final post of this thread:

http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... ghc#p20214

[GJones]

Umm, really not a good idea. Using symbolic links like that can lead to all manner of failures down the road.

[mimosa]

It's ugly, but it works, and is only needed for the build. Then you can delete it. This is a problem with ghc itself. There's an earlier thread where someone (gapan I think) suggested this solution to me.