[Nix-dev] ghc not able to find libz.so

[Raahul Kumar]

This Haskell depending on C library problem has happened before

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13362

This haskell program needs a zlib. My link above has Peter Simmon's hack.

Aloha,
RK.



On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Richard Wallace <
rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I put nix on a new machine today and tried to build a Haskell project that
> successfully builds on other machines.  To my great surprise, I encountered
> this error
>
> [ 6 of 12] Compiling Rainicorn.Types  ( src/Rainicorn/Types.hs,
> dist/build/hiberico/hiberico-tmp/Rainicorn/Types.o )
>
> <no location info>:
>     ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>   (GHC version 7.8.3 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
> Dynamic linker not initialised
>
> Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>
> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
> Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
> Loading package array-0.5.0.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package deepseq-1.3.0.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package bytestring-0.10.4.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package containers-0.5.5.1 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package binary-0.7.1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package digest-0.0.1.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package filepath-1.3.0.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.6 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package time-1.4.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package unix-2.7.0.1 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package directory-1.2.1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package transformers-0.3.0.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package mtl-2.1.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package old-time-1.1.0.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package pretty-1.1.1.1 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package text-1.1.1.3 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package zlib-0.5.4.1 ...
> <no location info>:
>     <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: libz.so (libz.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory)
>
> This project is using ghc 7.8.3 and a pretty recent nixpkgs.  I'm not
> seeing this error on other machines so have no idea what could be going
> on.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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