Failed to build Stack v1.1.0 on armv7 with Raspbian Jessie, GHC 7.10.3 & Cabal 1.22.8

[blitzcode]

I'm trying to build stack on an RPi 3 and I got this error:

Building stack-1.1.0...
Preprocessing library stack-1.1.0...
[53 of 86] Compiling Stack.Constants  ( src/Stack/Constants.hs, dist/build/Stack/Constants.o )
src/Stack/Constants.hs:291:7:
    cannot find normal object file `dist/build/Stack/Types/PackageName.dyn_o'
    while linking an interpreted expression

From what I understand, this is because TH needs to load some of stack's modules dynamically to run. If I build with --ghc-options=-dynamic-too, at least this error disappears. Later the linking step fails with thousands of errors like this:

/usr/bin/ld.gold: warning: cannot scan executable section 1 of /home/pi/.cabal/lib/arm-linux-ghc-7.10.3/filelock-0.1.0.1-0GuYZFry5kL0ASYgccAvYE/libHSfilelock-0.1.0.1-0GuYZFry5kL0ASYgccAvYE.a(Flock.o) for Cortex-A8 erratum because it has no mapping symbols.

But I guess at least that is a GHC bug.

I don't know if this is an issue with GHC, Cabal or the way stack's project is setup. I was able to compile all of stack's dependencies (a fairly significant and representative amount of code), so I assume the GHC/Cabal here on armv7 is not fundamentally broken.

Googling for this error leads to a lot of bug reports and discussions, and it's hard for me to figure out who's at fault there. I'd really appreciate a permanent fix for this, or an explanation that would allow me to file a bug report with the appropriate culprit.

Any help with getting stack compiled & build on ARM would be much appreciated.

[mgsloan]

Perhaps we should pass -dynamic-too. This page says that cabal passes it when the compiler supports it, but I'm not sure if that happens at the Cabal level or the cabal-install. I thought it was already happening - TH definitely works.

It's quite possible that this is a regression in Cabal, I am currently using 1.22.5.0 and do not encounter these issues.

Not sure what's going on the the ld issue, sorry, I don't know much about using ARM.

[blitzcode]

I've never seen this error before and used plenty of TH, I'm pretty sure it's a combination of ARM + whatever other factors. The main reason I filed a bug for stack is that I managed to build all of stack's dependencies just fine, so there must be something different about how stack is setup. Could very well be a GHC/Cabal issue, I really don't know.

[blitzcode]

the ld issue is about this:

https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1599
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11205

A workaround is to build with cabal install -j --dependencies-only --disable-library-stripping --disable-executable-stripping and/or setting executable-stripping: False + library-stripping: False in Cabal's config.

Then stack can be build. The next problem is stack itself lacks this flag, so it can't be used to build anything. Also see #1342

[mgsloan]

Ok, cool, sounds like you figured it out!