[Nix-dev] readelf: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: does not exist (No such file or directory)

[Peter Simons]

Hi Amy,

 > $ cabal build
 > Building Jot-1.0...
 > Preprocessing executable 'jot' for Jot-1.0...
 > readelf: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: does not exist (No such file or directory)

the "readelf" program is part of the binutils package. I guess you
should install that into your user profile or system profile, because it
provides important development tools like "ar", "ld", and many others.
Arguably, it shouldn't be necessary to install that package to use GHC,
but I'm afraid it currently is and there is no easy way to fix that.

I hope this helps,
Peter