ghc can be built without and with libffi. What advantage do I gain in the latter case? The packages that come with ghc (displayed by "ghc-pkg dump") don't use it.
Thanks Christian Am 16.11.2010 13:03, schrieb Christian Maeder: > http://new-www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.1/ghc-7.0.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 > > ./configure failed with: > > checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd: error > while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory > configure: error: cannot determine current directory > > ldd utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) > libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0xb7718000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7713000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb76e9000) > libffi.so.5 => not found > libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0xb7693000) > librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7689000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb751e000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7745000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7503000) > > The 64Bit version works, though. > > Christian > > > Am 16.11.2010 01:09, schrieb Ian Lynagh: >> How to get it >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: >> >> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ >> >> _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
