I am informed that the google gold linker does not like relative paths<div> <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635935">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635935</a><br><br></div><div>I uninstalled the gold linker and all is well now.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Greg Weber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@gregweber.info">greg@gregweber.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I just cloned GHC from github and tried to build it for the first time. I get the below result where the build tool says that existing object files are missing. I haven't touched a Makefile in a long time- help here is very appreciated.</div>
<div><br></div><div>===--- building final phase</div><div>make -r --no-print-directory -f <a href="http://ghc.mk" target="_blank">ghc.mk</a> phase=final all</div><div>"inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -H32m -O -package-name ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/ghc-prim/. -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/. -optP-include -optPlibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package rts-1.0 -split-objs -package-name ghc-prim -XHaskell98 -XCPP -XMagicHash -XForeignFunctionInterface -XUnliftedFFITypes -XUnboxedTuples -XEmptyDataDecls -XNoImplicitPrelude -O2 -no-user-package-conf -rtsopts -odir libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hidir libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -stubdir libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hisuf hi -osuf o -hcsuf hc -c libraries/ghc-prim/./GHC/CString.hs -o libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString.o</div>
<div>/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__1.o</div><div>/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/.o::CString(void)</div>
<div>/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__3.o</div><div>/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__4.o</div>
<div>/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__5.o</div><div>/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString_o_split/CString__6.o</div>
<div>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status</div><div>make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString.o] Error 1</div><div>make: *** [all] Error 2</div><div><br></div>
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