[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#622731: GHC 7 deb package ships with a stripped libHSghc

[Dr. ERDI Gergo]

Package: ghc
Version: 7.0.3-1
Severity: normal


It seems GHC 7 deb is shipping with a stripped libHSghc. This prevents the loading of the 'ghc' package:

11:21:15 [cactus at galaxy ~]$ ghci -package ghc
GHCi, version 7.0.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package array-0.3.0.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package containers-0.4.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package filepath-1.2.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package old-time-1.0.0.6 ... linking ... done.
Loading package unix-2.4.2.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package directory-1.1.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package pretty-1.0.1.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package process-1.0.1.5 ... linking ... done.
Loading package Cabal-1.10.1.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package bytestring-0.9.1.10 ... linking ... done.
Loading package ghc-binary-0.5.0.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package bin-package-db-0.0.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package hpc-0.5.0.6 ... linking ... done.
Loading package template-haskell ... linking ... done.
Loading package ghc-7.0.3 ... ghc: This ELF file contains no symtab
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.0.3 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
	loadArchive "/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/ghc-7.0.3/libHSghc-7.0.3.a": failed

Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

11:21:22 [cactus at galaxy ~]$ 

I've found the following discussion which seems relevant:
http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/GHC-5004-yesod-0-7-1-fails-to-build-on-ghc-7-0-2-td3412891.html



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers maverick-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ghc depends on:
ii  gcc                4:4.4.4-1ubuntu2      The GNU C compiler
ii  libbsd-dev         0.2.0-1               utility functions from BSD systems
ii  libc6              2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libc6-dev          2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2    Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii  libffi-dev         3.0.9-2ubuntu2        Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libffi5            3.0.9-2ubuntu2        Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libgmp-dev         2:5.0.1+dfsg-7        Multiprecision arithmetic library 
ii  libgmp10           2:5.0.1+dfsg-7        Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libncurses5        5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1 shared libraries for terminal hand

ghc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ghc suggests:
pn  ghc-doc                 <none>           (no description available)
ii  ghc-prof                7.0.3-1          Profiling libraries for the Glasgo
pn  haskell-doc             <none>           (no description available)
ii  perl                    5.10.1-12ubuntu2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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