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

[Raahul Kumar]

Is it possible for you to post enough code that triggers the bug? I promise
nothing, but somebody might have a look if you post it.

Aloha,
RK.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Richard Wallace <
rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:

> I will give those workarounds a try. I'm just confused about why it is
> necessary on one machine and not another. Part of the promise of nix is
> reproducible builds, but this appears to throw a monkey wrench into that
> notion.
>
> I'm also a bit surprised this doesn't come up more often. The project
> being built doesn't directly rely on zlib or any other C code, this problem
> occurs when template Haskell is being used to generate lenses.
> On Oct 14, 2014 7:53 PM, "Raahul Kumar" <raahul.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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