linker error when building any project

[philipdexter]

Running stack build on stack itself (fe06c3e)

[other packages build fine until]
--  While building package yaml-0.8.11 using:
      /home/philip/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-7.8.4/bin/runghc-7.8.4 -package=Cabal-1.18.1.5 -clear-package-db -global-package-db /tmp/stack3284/yaml-0.8.11/Setup.lhs --builddir=dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/ build
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
    Logs have been written to: "/home/philip/projects/stack/.stack-work/logs/yaml-0.8.11.log"

    Configuring yaml-0.8.11...
    Building yaml-0.8.11...
    Preprocessing library yaml-0.8.11...
    [1 of 7] Compiling Text.Libyaml     ( Text/Libyaml.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Text/Libyaml.o )
    [2 of 7] Compiling Data.Yaml.Internal ( Data/Yaml/Internal.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Data/Yaml/Internal.o )
    [3 of 7] Compiling Data.Yaml        ( Data/Yaml.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Data/Yaml.o )
    [4 of 7] Compiling Data.Yaml.Aeson  ( Data/Yaml/Aeson.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Data/Yaml/Aeson.o )
    [5 of 7] Compiling Data.Yaml.Builder ( Data/Yaml/Builder.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Data/Yaml/Builder.o )
    [6 of 7] Compiling Data.Yaml.Parser ( Data/Yaml/Parser.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Data/Yaml/Parser.o )
    [7 of 7] Compiling Data.Yaml.Include ( Data/Yaml/Include.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/Data/Yaml/Include.o )
    In-place registering yaml-0.8.11...
    Preprocessing executable 'yaml2json' for yaml-0.8.11...
    [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( exe/yaml2json.hs, dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/yaml2json/yaml2json-tmp/Main.o )
    Linking dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/yaml2json/yaml2json ...
    /usr/bin/ld: dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/yaml2json/yaml2json-tmp/Main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `stg_bhtmp-0.1.0.0: build
Building tmp-0.1.0.0...
Preprocessing executable 'tmp' for tmp-0.1.0.0...
Linking dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/build/tmp/tmp ...
/usr/bin/ld: dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/build/tmp/tmp-tmp/Main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `stg_bh_upd_frame_info' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/build/tmp/tmp-tmp/Main.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

--  While building package tmp-0.1.0.0 using:
      /home/philip/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-7.10.1/bin/runghc-7.10.1 -package=Cabal-1.22.2.0 -clear-package-db -global-package-db /home/philip/tmp/Setup.hs --builddir=dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/ build
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
_upd_frame_info' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
    dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.18.1.5/build/yaml2json/yaml2json-tmp/Main.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

When running on a no-added-dependencies project

tmp-0.1.0.0: build
Building tmp-0.1.0.0...
Preprocessing executable 'tmp' for tmp-0.1.0.0...
Linking dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/build/tmp/tmp ...
/usr/bin/ld: dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/build/tmp/tmp-tmp/Main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `stg_bh_upd_frame_info' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/build/tmp/tmp-tmp/Main.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

--  While building package tmp-0.1.0.0 using:
      /home/philip/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-7.10.1/bin/runghc-7.10.1 -package=Cabal-1.22.2.0 -clear-package-db -global-package-db /home/philip/tmp/Setup.hs --builddir=dist-stack/x86_64-linux/Cabal-1.22.2.0/ build
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1

[borsboom]

@philipdexter: are GHC and cabal-install able to link on this system (taking stack itself out of the picture)?

[borsboom]

Also, any additional details you can provide about the system you're running on would be helpful. Linux distribution, version, installed packages, etc.

[philipdexter]

GHC and cabal-install are handled via the nix package manager, and can link (I built stack using nix-shell -p).

I use arch linux.

$ uname -a
Linux arch-satellite 4.0.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 6 18:37:49 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I don't have any haskell related packages installed (at least none
visible outside of nix commands).

UPDATE:

I've just installed the ghc and cabal-install distro packages and everything works. This must be a nix issue then. Hmm

[berdario]

I stumbled upon the same (similar?) issue

I started with a nix-installed version of stack, but the weird thing is that the errors kept appearing even with the Ubuntu's package and with a freshly-built version of stack 1.2. Moreover, I got this error also when using cabal-install via stack exec -- env -u GHC_PACKAGE_PATH cabal new-build

this is a gist of the error I get

It apparently happens when trying to build any project, but weirdly it started happening after I added logging-effect to the extra-deps in my stack.yaml

I thought that the reason might be related to the usage of pkgconfig, since a similar issue has been fixed by not relying on that anymore:

alexcrichton/git2-rs@4d2b771

I've seen one mention of PackageConfig but I'm not actually sure if that's even the same pkgconfig

I managed to get back a working stack after removing the whole ~/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1/