id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc os architecture failure difficulty testcase blockedby blocking related 4366 in-tree GMP build problem with shared libraries simonmar "Reported by Vivian McPhail on glasgow-haskell-users: {{{ Trying to build rc1 from source linux x86_64 BuildFlavour = perf It seems that the -fPIC flag is set, but an error still occurs ( /usr/bin/ld: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/abs.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.text' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC ) ""inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"" -fPIC -dynamic -O -H64m -package-name base-4.3.0.0 -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/base/. -ilibraries/base/dist-install/build -ilibraries/base/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/base/dist-install/build -Ilibraries/base/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/base/include -optP-DOPTIMISE_INTEGER_GCD_LCM -optP-include -optPlibraries/base/dist-install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 -package integer-gmp-0.2.0.2 -package rts-1.0 -package-name base -XMagicHash -XExistentialQuantification -XRank2Types -XScopedTypeVariables -XUnboxedTuples -XForeignFunctionInterface -XUnliftedFFITypes -XDeriveDataTypeable -XGeneralizedNewtypeDeriving -XFlexibleInstances -XStandaloneDeriving -XPatternGuards -XEmptyDataDecls -XNoImplicitPrelude -XCPP -no-user-package-conf -rtsopts -O2 -XGenerics -fno-warn-deprecated-flags -odir libraries/base/dist-install/build -hidir libraries/base/dist-install/build -stubdir libraries/base/dist-install/build -hisuf dyn_hi -osuf dyn_o -hcsuf dyn_hc -c libraries/base/./Data/Typeable.hs-boot -o libraries/base/dist-install/build/Data/Typeable.dyn_o-boot /usr/bin/ld: libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/abs.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.text' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/objs/abs.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.2-ghc7.0.0.20100924.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: *** [all] Error 2 }}}" bug new low 7.6.2 Build System 6.13 pho@… Linux x86_64 (amd64) Building GHC failed