#7375: Building ghc fails because it is looking for an old version of libgmp
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Reporter: mimosa | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.4.2
Resolution: fixed | Keywords:
Os: Linux | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Failure: Building GHC failed | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Blocking: | Related: 5743
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Comment(by mimosa):
So if a working GHC is present, I take it that will be used instead of
stage 0 in the unknown-linux tarball, is that right?
As I said above, the GHC I built still seems to require the old gmp, but
maybe there's something wrong with my package.
For practical purposes, a package is a build that works on a particular
system (in my case, a Linux distribution), but from the point of view of
that system's packaging procedures, it is a link to the source code and a
build script; taken together these should be capable of recreating the
package from zero. However you go about it, GHC is going to need special
treatment somewhere. For instance, the package "source" might include the
locally built stage 0 compiler you suggest.
Thank you for your helpful explanations. I'll talk to the Salix developers
to see what solution they regard as ideal and try and deliver that for the
next packaging cycle. Meanwhile, the existing package should be available
from Salix repos shortly, and can be considered a Slackware package too.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7375#comment:9>
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