Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

[yasu]

This one ought to be very simple to solve (or at least confirm).   Does
anyone use Haskell daily?

I am a very casual user of Haskell (GHC) and when I tried to compile
something just now, I noticed that it can't even compile the simplest
possible program..., unless I downgrade to ghc@8.4 or lower. Newer
versions, including ghc@8.6.5, didn't work, throwing the error message
below instead.

~/co/haskell-tiny-intro/exercise (master *)$ cat a.hs
main = putStrLn "a"

~/co/haskell-tiny-intro/exercise (master *)$ ghc a.hs
Linking a ...
.gcc-wrapped: error: unrecognized command line option '-no-pie'
`gcc' failed in phase `C Compiler'. (Exit code: 1)

Cheers,
Yasu

Re: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

[John Soo]

     Hi yasu, 

 
Compiling with ghc requires a c toolchain (like gcc-toolchain) installed to work. Can you try again after installing gcc-toolchain?    Ghc has not been perfect for me recently but I use it quite a lot.
 

 
Hope that helps,
 

 
John
     

Re: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

[yasu]

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Hi John,
Thank you, after installing gcc-toolchain, it worked!
Then this is indeed a bug that should be very simple to fix?   Just
require gcc-toolchain (or some of its required features) as a GHC's
dependency?
I am also curious, what kind of testing (if any?) does Guix perform for
packages??  Or is GHC already marked as broken?
(Apology for repeated question marks :-))
~/co/haskell-tiny-intro/exercise (master *)$ guix install gcc-
toolchain...~/co/haskell-tiny-intro/exercise (master *)$ ghc a.hs[1 of
1] Compiling Main             ( a.hs, a.o )Linking a ...~/co/haskell-
tiny-intro/exercise (master *)$ ghc --versionThe Glorious Glasgow
Haskell Compilation System, version 8.8.3
Cheers,
Yasu
On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 21:49 -0800, John Soo wrote:

> Hi yasu,
> Compiling with ghc requires a c toolchain (like gcc-toolchain)
> installed to work. Can you try again after installing gcc-toolchain?
>  Ghc has not been perfect for me recently but I use it quite a lot.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> John

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bug#45777: duplicate entry

[John Soo]

This was a duplicate entry

bug#45776: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

[Maxime Devos]

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On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 04:32 -0700, John Soo wrote:
> Hello zimoun,
> 
> I believe it can be closed, thanks!

Done.  You can close bugs yourself by sending
an e-mail to ${BUG-NUMBER}-done@debbugs.gnu.org.


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