[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#717545: libgmp3c2: Missing in wheezy, which causes some 3rd party programs to fail

[Petr Pudlák]

Hi,

as I commented before, this problem applies to to the upstream GHC binary.

What lead me to believe that this is a Debian-related bug was that I saw 
libgmp3c2 package in squeeze and sid, but not in wheezy. At closer look 
it seems that the sid package is only for one non-standard architecture 
and so that it is intentional it's not included in wheezy. Therefore I'm 
closing the bug report and apologize for my mistake.

Instead I'm opening a GHC bug report at 
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8085

Best regards,
Petr Pudlak

Dne 07/22/2013 11:53 PM, Joachim Breitner napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> indeed the GHC runtime links with gmp, so every Haskell binary built
> needs a compatible version of the library:
>
> $ ldd dailystripsformatter
> 	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf77cd000)
> 	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf77b5000)
> 	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xf77b1000)
> 	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf77ac000)
> 	libgmp.so.10 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0xf7732000)
> 	libffi.so.5 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.5 (0xf7729000)
> 	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf7703000)
> 	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf75a0000)
> 	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7586000)
> 	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf77ce000)
>
> But all Debian packages shipping some Haskell binary have a dependency
> on the right version of gmp:
>
>   $ apt-cache show xmonad|grep-dctrl -s Depends .
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libffi5 (>= 3.0.4), libgmp10, libx11-6,
> libxext6, libxinerama1, x11-utils
> $ apt-cache show git-annex|grep-dctrl -s Depends .
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libffi5 (>= 3.0.4), libgmp10, libpcre3 (>=
> 8.10), git (>= 1:1.7.7), uuid, rsync, wget | curl, openssh-client (>=
> 1:5.6p1)
> $ apt-cache show ghc|grep-dctrl -s Depends .
> Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.2), libgmp-dev, libffi-dev, libbsd-dev, libc6-dev,
> libc6 (>= 2.7), libffi5 (>= 3.0.4), libgmp10, libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~),
> libtinfo5
>
> so I don’t think that the Debian provided GHC installation can break.
> Therefore I conclude that the „installation of Glasgow Haskell Compiler“
> mentioned is not from Debian, but self-compiled or a binary provided by
> upstream. As these are not managed by dpkg, they can and will break if
> you upgrade libraries like libgmp without keeping the old package around
> (you can install multiple versions of libgmp in parallel).
>
> If that is true then the answer to “Is
>> there a way to make Haskell work with the released gmp?” is: Yes, use
> apt-get install ghc.
>
> If it is really the Debian provided ghc package that broke then I’d be
> interested in the output of "apt-cache policy ghc", "dpkg -l libgmp\*"
> and "ldd /usr/lib/ghc/lib/ghc".
>
> Thanks,
> Joachim
>