[Nix-dev] non-"dynamic-only" GHC

[Taeer Bar-Yam]

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the reply; that's very good to know.
I thought it was the same issue because I am getting the same "No rule to make target Prelude.hi needed by Main.o" message, and this is the only thing I found online that explains it. I haven't been able to reach anybody on #ghc, but maybe I should try again. Do you know any other reasons I might be getting this message? It seems like an odd one; I'm not sure why any makefiles/rules would be missing.

As a side note, I seem to have to run ./configure with a bunch of options like --with-curses-includes=/run/current-system/sw/include, since GHC apparently doesn't know where to look for these things. Did you have to do this when you built GHC? I think that most of the time nixos manages these for me, but for some reason this time it didn't.
  --Taeer
> On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:18 AM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> 
> Hi Taeer,
> 
>> I'd like to just circumvent the issue altogether and use a
>> "non-dynamic-only" GHC.
> 
> the GHC provided by Nixpkgs has both static and dynamic libraries enabled,
> so you *do* have "non-dynamic-only GHC".
> 
> Are you really sure that the error you've encountered is actually related to
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10374? I'm asking because I have
> compiled GHC numerous times using an ordinary ghcWithPackages environment
> from Nix, and I've never had any such problems.
> 
> Best regards,
> Peter
> 
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