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GHC 8.6.5 does not build on Darwin #66221

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bdesham opened this issue Aug 6, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #66310
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GHC 8.6.5 does not build on Darwin #66221

bdesham opened this issue Aug 6, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #66310
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0.kind: bug 0.kind: regression Something that worked before working no longer 6.topic: darwin Running or building packages on Darwin 6.topic: haskell

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bdesham commented Aug 6, 2019 •
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Describe the bug

I’m trying to build the ghc package (currently at version 8.6.5) on Darwin but building fails with the error

Configuring ghc-prim-0.5.3...
ghc-cabal: Cannot find the program 'ld'. User-specified path
'/nix/store/fhhahhv5jdh6rvwz42b8a2rr955ll580-cctools-binutils-darwin-wrapper/bin/ld.gold'
does not refer to an executable and the program is not on the system path.

make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/ghc.mk:5: libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:125: all] Error 2
builder for '/nix/store/c7dfl0k04fbw80ghrwcirpc6yq2f50s2-ghc-8.6.5.drv' failed with exit code 2

Full console output (warning: almost 2 MB)

To Reproduce

  1. cd .../my-clone-of-nixpkgs
  2. git checkout 0f6faf630ff (this is the exact revision I’m using; it’s the Nixpkgs master as of this writing)
  3. nix-build -A ghc

Metadata

  • system: "x86_64-darwin"
  • host os: Darwin 18.7.0, macOS 10.14.6
  • multi-user?: no
  • sandbox: no
  • version: nix-env (Nix) 2.2.2
  • channels(besham): "nixpkgs-19.09pre187222.002b853782e"
  • nixpkgs: /Users/besham/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs

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# a list of nixpkgs attributes affected by the problem
attribute: ghc
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This is most likely from 29f2f04

bdesham referenced this issue Aug 6, 2019
@alpmestan @peti
ghc: always use ld.gold
29f2f04 
gold is known to speed up GHC builds considerably, saving up to many seconds
when linking large Haskell applications, so this patch configures all
non-binary GHC derivations to use gold.
@vcunat vcunat added 6.topic: darwin Running or building packages on Darwin 6.topic: haskell 0.kind: regression Something that worked before working no longer labels Aug 6, 2019
@marsam marsam mentioned this issue Aug 8, 2019
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