Invalid Haskell Files in the Base Package

Question

I have never had this before, but today I tried using ghc and getting:

could not find module
there are files missing in the base-4.10.0.0 package

ghc-pkg check returns:

https://pastebin.com/aCmr9igi

Answer 1

You probably need to tell ghc about using shared libraries using a flag -dynamic, for example.

$ ghc --make -dynamic path/to/file.hs

This means that you do not need to install the package ghc-static.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Installation ghc-staticfixed.