Ticket #4054 (closed bug: wontfix)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Configure script for Linux binary does not check for libgmp

Reported by: diatchki Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Build System Version: 6.12.2
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: Linux Architecture: x86_64 (amd64)
Type of failure: Installing GHC failed Difficulty:
Test Case: Blocked By:
Blocking: Related Tickets:

Description

The "configure" script packaged with the binary distribution downloadable from GHC's web site does not seem to check for the existence of libgmp correctly. I tried this on a fresh Ubuntu system (64-bit 10.4), GHC (6.12.2, Linux 64-bit) configured and installed, but when trying to run GHCi I got a linker error. Installing libgmp solved the problem.

Change History

Changed 3 years ago by diatchki

  • failure changed from None/Unknown to Installing GHC failed
  • os changed from Unknown/Multiple to Linux
  • architecture changed from Unknown/Multiple to x86_64 (amd64)

Changed 3 years ago by igloo

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to wontfix

Thanks for the report. However, the bindist configure script isn't designed to do this. It's just a convenient way to set things like the directory to install to. I don't think it would be worth the effort to have it try to detect these sorts of problems, and to keep that support working.

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