Hi, I was able to reproduce this with: Ubuntu 16.10 (YakketyYak), stack's ghc (8.0.2) (via stack setup).
I'll try to figure out what's going wrong here. Cheers, Moritz > On Oct 18, 2017, at 11:38 PM, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> > wrote: > > Hi, > > it’s an Arch linux (generously sponsored by Richard’s university). I > have not idea how to give more precise information about the distro > release version or such :-) > > Greetings, > Joachim > > Am Mittwoch, den 18.10.2017, 22:02 +0800 schrieb Moritz Angermann: >> Hi, >> >> so this somehow looks like for a not yet absolutely clear reason to me, >> when building ghci, we fail to link in libffi, for some configurations. >> >> Joachim, as far as I could see, you are using ghc 8.0.1 to boostrap the >> compiler. Thomas are you by any chance bootstrapping with 8.0.1 as well? >> I assume Ben bootstraps wit 8.2.1. >> >> I'll set up a Ubuntu 16.10 machine tomorrow and try to reproduce this. >> >> Joachim, is perf.haskell.org running Ubuntu as well? >> >> Cheers, >> Moritz >> >>> On Oct 11, 2017, at 1:43 AM, Thomas Jakway <tjak...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for getting back to me. >>> >>> (I think you mean `git clean -x -f -d`): I usually omit -x but I'll give it >>> a go and report back. >>> >>> Before I got the issue on a clean checkout I thought it was something I did >>> to the build files. >>> >>> I also tried building the latest release of libffi (v3.2.1) and using it in >>> configure with --with-ffi-includes and --with-ffi-libraries but got the >>> same error. >>> >>> >>> On 10/09/2017 02:40 AM, Moritz Angermann wrote: >>>> Yes, this commit indeed introduced the need for makeinfo, however after >>>> some debugging and improved packaging of the external libffi library, this >>>> dependency was removed again, and should not be required with the latest >>>> head anymore. >>>> >>>> Then again this should not result in link issues but rather in build time >>>> issues. >>>> >>>> The key to libffi is the libffi-tarballs git submodule, which contains the >>>> packaged libffi-tarballs. Make sure all your submodules are also updated. >>>> >>>> I usually use `git -x -f -d` (read the documentation first) to ensure a >>>> clean working tree. Especially as you say you can’t reproduce it on other >>>> machines, maybe there is a file in your tree that the cleaning did not >>>> catch? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>> On 9 Oct 2017, at 4:31 AM, Thomas Jakway <tjak...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm on Ubuntu 16.10. >>>>> >>>>> I ran git bisect: >>>>> >>>>> ---------------------- >>>>> >>>>> e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82 is the first bad commit >>>>> commit e515c7f37be97e1c2ccc497ddd0a730e63ddfa82 >>>>> Author: Moritz Angermann <moritz.angerm...@gmail.com> >>>>> Date: Sat Sep 30 09:31:12 2017 -0400 >>>>> >>>>> Allow libffi snapshots >>>>> >>>>> This is rather annoying. I'd prefer to have a stable release to >>>>> use. However libffi-3.2.1 has been released November 12, 2014, and >>>>> libffi-4 is TBD. See also https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/296 >>>>> >>>>> The core reason for this change is that llvm changed the supported >>>>> assembly to unified syntax, which libffi-3.2.1 does not use, and hence >>>>> fails to compile for arm with llvm. For refence, see the following >>>>> issue: https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/191. >>>>> >>>>> This diff contains a script to generate a tarball for the >>>>> `libffi-tarballs` repository from the libffi GitHub repository; as well >>>>> as the necessary changes to the build system. >>>>> >>>>> Updates libffi-tarballs submodule. >>>>> >>>>> Reviewers: austin, bgamari, hvr >>>>> >>>>> Subscribers: hvr, erikd, rwbarton, thomie >>>>> >>>>> Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3574 >>>>> >>>>> ---------------------- >>>>> >>>>> I can't reproduce it on my other linux computers though. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 10/04/2017 02:17 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: >>>>>> Thomas Jakway <tjak...@nyu.edu> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyone else getting linker errors? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is after running >>>>>>> >>>>>>> make clean && make distclean && find . -name "*.o" -type f -delete && >>>>>>> find . -name "*.hi" -type f -delete >>>>>>> >>>>>>> then >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ./boot && ./configure && make -j5 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (ghc-new is not a new checkout, this error is happening on a branch I'm >>>>>>> working on, but one that doesn't touch the FFI) >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm afraid I can't reproduce this. What platform/operating system is >>>>>> this on? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> - Ben >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> ghc-devs mailing list >>>>> ghc-devs@haskell.org >>>>> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ghc-devs mailing list >>> ghc-devs@haskell.org >>> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> > -- > Joachim Breitner > m...@joachim-breitner.de > http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs ————————————————— Moritz Angermann +49 170 54 33 0 74 mor...@lichtzwerge.de lichtzwerge GmbH Raiffeisenstr. 8 93185 Michelsneukirchen Amtsgericht Regensburg HRB 14723 Geschäftsführung: Moritz Angermann, Ralf Sangl USt-Id: DE291948767 Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. 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