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
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
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 999 bytes --] 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 [-- Attachment #2: face-smile.png --] [-- Type: image/png, Size: 871 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 455 bytes --] Hi yasu, This question comes up on the mailing list every so often, but I don’t think it is a bug. I want to be able to choose the c toolchain ghc uses myself. I would rather introduce some Haskell specific documentation. We discussed during the guix day that we would love to have some language specific setup documentation. I had issues like this in mind. - John [-- Attachment #2: face-smile.png --] [-- Type: image/PNG, Size: 871 bytes --]
Hi John,
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 22:18, John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> wrote:
> This question comes up on the mailing list every so often, but I don’t
> think it is a bug. I want to be able to choose the c toolchain ghc
> uses myself. I would rather introduce some Haskell specific
> documentation.
Choosing the C toolchain and propagating one are not really related. I
mean, one C toolchain could be propagated by default, so then GHC works
out-of-the-box. And the build transformation ’--with-c-toolchain’
should provide the flexibility to use any other C toolchain variant you
want. Is it not working as expected?
All the best,
simon
Hi zimoun, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes: > Choosing the C toolchain and propagating one are not really related. Good point. > I mean, one C toolchain could be propagated by default, so then GHC works > out-of-the-box. And the build transformation ’--with-c-toolchain’ > should provide the flexibility to use any other C toolchain variant you > want. Is it not working as expected? As is, ghc does not work after guix install ghc. gcc-toolchain must be installed alongside it to work. Maybe the reason for this was to not propagate particular versions of the gcc-toolchain and possibly conflict with others. Thanks! John
Hello, should the following issues be merged together ? 45776 45777 45778 -- Vincent Legoll
Some should be closed, and bug-guix should be removed from the thread.
Hi,
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 21:49, John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
I think this bug can be closed. WDYT?
All the best,
simon
Hello zimoun, I believe it can be closed, thanks! - John
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 213 bytes --] 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. [-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 260 bytes --]