[darcs-users] Darcs 2 Binary on Solaris/SPARC?

[Elliott Slaughter]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:40 AM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2008, at 21:35 PM, Elliott Slaughter wrote:
>

> I also tried building one on my own, but I had trouble installing GHC :-(
>>
>
> You had trouble installing ghc from this page?
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html#sparcsolaris
>

Yes, I installed
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.3/maeder/ghc-6.8.3-sparc-sun-solaris2.tar.bz2
.

The essential problem is that the server seems to be 64-bit SPARC while the
binary is 32-bit. Since the dynamically linked GHC binary requires
additional .so files to run, any libs which I try to compile on the machine
itself run into ELF class incompatibility errors. So I tried installing
prebuilt packages from http://sunfreeware.com/, and spent a couple hours
grokking the Solaris package system before I figured out how to extract the
right files. I think I have the right libs installed, but when I try to run
GHC, I get this:

-bash-3.00$ runhaskell Setup configure
ld.so.1: ghc-6.8.3: fatal: relocation error: file
/home/.../lib/libncurses.so.5: symbol main: referenced symbol not found

(FYI, I got ncurses 5.6 from
http://sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#ncurses.)

Any suggestions would be welcome, thanks in advance.


-- 
Elliott Slaughter

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." - Frank
Herbert
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