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ghc --interactive error: "gcc: error: libgmp.so: No such file or directory"

I get this error when I run hello world with ghci or runghc:

$ ghc-stage2 --interactive Hello.hs
GHCi, version 8.5.20180117: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
gcc: error: libgmp.so: No such file or directory
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
`gcc' failed in phase `gcc'. (Exit code: 1)

It works with 8.2.2's runghc and ghci so it seems like a regression to me.

This also causes validate failure on my laptop, because at one point validate script runs runghc.

OS: Xubuntu 16.04.2

libgmp.so location:

➜  ~ locate libgmp.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10.3.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openssl-1.0.0/engines/libgmp.so
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