Trouble building with profiling enabled

[nagaflokhu]

I am unable to build this package with cabal. In particular, running cabal install -p random produces the following error message:

/usr/bin/ld.gold: fatal error: -pie and -r are incompatible
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
cabal: Leaving directory '/tmp/cabal-tmp-22972/random-1.1'
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
random-1.1-9LLJAJa4iQFLJiLXBOBXBV failed during the building phase. The
exception was:
ExitFailure 1

There are also warnings about tab characters further up cabal's message.

cabal install random (without the -p flag) doesn't give me errors.

Some relevant information:

$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 2.2.0.0
compiled using version 2.2.0.0 of the Cabal library
$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.4.3
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 8.2.1 20180831
$ grep DISTRIB /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.0.0
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Illyria
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

Please let me know if I can help and thank you!

[cartazio]

1. i usually just have library-profiling: True in my ~/.cabal/config directory

2. i see this manjaro is based on arch, from what i know, ANY use of ANY of the standard haskell builds of various stuff as provided by Arch, will be broken in some frustrating way

3. i see you're using GOLD, an alternative linker on linux. have you considered trying either gnu ld or llvm ld? cursory googling suggests that GOLD sometimes has gotchas in terms of search path or other stuff https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3476093/replacing-ld-with-gold-any-experience/30801735

4. you didn't install the profiling flavor of the base ghc / base / etc libraries?

[nagaflokhu]

Thanks a lot for replying so quickly and in so much detail! I see from your reply that my issue has nothing to do with the random package: feel free to close this issue.

I tried setting library-profiling: True and reinstalling random, but that didn't work. I've been reading about using Haskell on Arch and about changing ghc's behaviour (in this case, getting it to use another linker). As for the profiling flavor of other libraries, I don't think so. I installed the Haskell Platform.

[cartazio]

Did you install arch’s ghc or a user space one? If you could reproduce your problem on Debian or Ubuntu I can help fix it. :)

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:31 PM nagaflokhu ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks a lot for replying so quickly and in so much detail! I see from your reply that my issue has nothing to do with the random package: feel free to close this issue. I tried setting library-profiling: True and reinstalling random, but that didn't work. I've been reading about using Haskell on Arch and about changing ghc's behaviour (in this case, getting it to use another linker). As for the profiling flavor of other libraries, I don't think so. I installed the Haskell Platform. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#50 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAQwrBcY93aYoiPse4ttkHw0SdATEqCks5uy2B-gaJpZM4Yv1H9> .

[nagaflokhu]

I installed Arch's ghc, uninstalled it, and then installed the Haskell Platform. I mention the first installation in case it might affect the ghc that came with the Haskell Platform.

I don't have a Debian or Ubuntu machine, but I will try reproducing this on Linux Mint (based off Ubuntu). Thanks!

[lehins]

Closing. Indeed this issue is not specific to random package.