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 build type to

ifeq "$(BuildFlavour)" "quick"

SRC_HC_OPTS        = -H64m -O0 -fasm -fPIC
GhcStage1HcOpts    = -O -fasm -fPIC
GhcStage2HcOpts    = -O0 -fasm -fPIC
GhcLibHcOpts       = -O -fasm -fPIC
SplitObjs          = NO
HADDOCK_DOCS       = NO
BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML = NO
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS   = NO
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF  = NO

endif

unfortunately, when compiling i still get the ld error

ghc -fglasgow-exts --make -shared -oHs2lib.a /tmp/Hs2lib924498/Hs2lib.hs dllmain.o -static -fno-warn-deprecated-flags -O2 -package ghc -package Hs2lib -i/home/phyx/Documents/Haskell/Hs2lib -optl-Wl,-s -funfolding-use-threshold=16 -optc-O3 -optc-ffast-math
Linking a.out ...
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/Hs2lib924498/Hs2lib.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `ghczmprim_GHCziUnit_Z0T_closure' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/tmp/Hs2lib924498/Hs2lib.o: could not read symbols: Bad value

So it seems that GHC-prim still isn't compiled with -FPIC I've also told cabal to build any packages with -fPIC and shared.

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: Thanks to dcouts I've been able to make some progress. But now i'm at the point where I thnk libffi isn't compiled with -fPIC. I've edited the makefile(.in) for it but so far, no luck.

The new command is:

 ghc -fPIC -shared dllmain.o Hs2lib.o /usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.3/libHSrts.a -o Hs2lib.so

where dllmain.c and Hs2lib.hs have both been compiled using -fPIC. The error I get is:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.3/libHSffi.a(closures.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 
against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.0.3/libHSffi.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

collect2

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