Compiling ghc with -fPIC support

Question

I\'m trying to install GHC with -fPIC support in Fedora. I\'ve grabbed a source tarball since it seems no binary one has this.

In Build.mk i\'ve changed the quick bu

Answer 1

There's an FAQ entry on this topic on the Haskell Stack page.

It basically says the problem is environment related and sometimes non-deterministic.

The issue may be related to the use of hardening flags in some cases, specifically those related to producing position independent executables (PIE).

There's also a work around suggestion for Arch Linux:

On Arch Linux, installing the ncurses5-compat-libs package from AUR resolves this issue.