Linking problems whilst compiling bit-extras package (-lgcc_s)

[et4te]

#Which version of nixpkgs are you supposed to use?

After doing a clone of the repo and following exact (so with the same nixpkgs generated in default.nix specified as NIX_PATH) instructions for a local package:
error: anonymous function at /nix/store/vi96434p25iamf88ddwprpb62yqdmxry-21a8239452adae3a4717772f4e490575586b2755.tar.gz/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/default.nix:1:1 called with unexpected argument ‘configurationCommon’, at /nix/store/vi96434p25iamf88ddwprpb62yqdmxry-21a8239452adae3a4717772f4e490575586b2755.tar.gz/lib/customisation.nix:56:12

If I change NIX_PATH to point to master:
error: attribute ‘gcc_s’ missing, at /home/boobly/haskell/zero/default.nix:587:22 (use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information)

If I change NIX_PATH to point to unstable, same error as above.

[et4te]

The latter errors were resolved in the default derivation by changing gcc_s to point to pkgs.gcc instead of pkgs.gcc_s.

[et4te]

The failing package:

      bits-extras = callPackage ({ base, gcc_s, mkDerivation, stdenv }:
      mkDerivation {
          pname = "bits-extras";
          version = "0.1.3";
          sha256 = "0sy9dksmdx0773bsn8yi5hw4qpgn16g8aqqj888w1x75cbsxr997";
          isLibrary = true;
          isExecutable = true;
          libraryHaskellDepends = [
            base
          ];
          librarySystemDepends = [
            gcc_s
          ];
          doHaddock = false;
          doCheck = false;
          description = "Efficient high-level bit operations not found in Data.Bits";
          license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
        }) { gcc_s = pkgs.gcc_s; };

This is how stack2nix . > foo.nix generated the dependency. pkgs.gcc_s does not exist but there is a libgcc_s.so in pkgs.gcc.cc.lib.

Adding:

    configureFlags = "--ghc-option=-lgcc_s --extra-lib-dirs=${gcc.cc.lib}/lib";
    librarySystemDepends = [ pkgs.gcc pkgs.gcc.cc pkgs.gcc.cc.lib ];

To the derivation results in a different error:

/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `popcountll'
/nix/store/r0xlbryz4wkypgx4j3g5a3nw0k076183-base32-bytestring-0.2.1.0/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbase32-bytestring-0.2.1.0-esrbjWkQgX40VlkUUEqX3-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `bswap32'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `ctz'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `clzl'
/nix/store/r0xlbryz4wkypgx4j3g5a3nw0k076183-base32-bytestring-0.2.1.0/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbase32-bytestring-0.2.1.0-esrbjWkQgX40VlkUUEqX3-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `bswap64'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `popcountl'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `parityll'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `ctzl'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `popcount'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `clz'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `parity'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `ctzll'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `parityl'
/nix/store/4jbjy0hya1m4f46zrccy8a0j8y4pcq1d-bits-extras-0.1.3/lib/ghc-8.0.2/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.2/libHSbits-extras-0.1.3-7YxY7d8kOvC81JvOHIFhZZ-ghc8.0.2.so: undefined reference to `clzll'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`cc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)

Ultimately this error happens when the main executable is linked.

This was tested against stack LTS 8.17 / LTS 8.24.

[domenkozar]

This is an upstream issue for cabal2nix NixOS/cabal2nix#71

[et4te]

Managed to fix the problem by removing dependencies in the cabal file which werent being used. I had a library and executable defined and the executable didnt actually depend on bits-extras.