Hi,
(second time: Outlook tricked me: wrong email address
I really love this mailer. :-( )
The lib prefix convention is only for .a and .so files,
.o files do not fall under this convention, so:
ld -r --whole-archive libHSfoo.a -o HSfoo.o
is what should work for you.
Cheers
Dirk
> -----Original Message-----
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> S.D.Mechveliani
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:00 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: package for ghci
>
>
> To my question on packages for ghci
> Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responds
>
> >> 5. ar -q libHSfoo.a *.o
> >> ld -r --whole-archive libHSdocon.a -o libHSdocon.o
>
> > Here's your problem: you named the output libHSdocon.o, but GHCi is
> > looking for HSfoo.o (because that's the name you gave in the package
> > spec).
> >
> > ld -r --whole-archive libHSfoo.a -o libHSfoo.o
> >
> > [..]
>
>
> Thank you.
> The matter was indeed in the name.
> And it was due to the `lib' prefix, not due to `docon'.
>
> Because there was a typo in my letter:
> ...--whole-archive libHSfdocon.a ...
> while in real experiment it was ...--whole-archive libHSfoo.a ...
>
> And I doubt whether the GHC implementation agrees at this point with
> the GHC User's guide. Section 4.11.2 says
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> A package specification looks like this:
>
> Package {name = "mypkg"
> hs_libraries = ["HSmypkg"]
> ...
> }
> ...
> hs_libraries
> A list of libraries containing Haskell code for this package,
> with the .a or .dll suffix omitted.
> On Unix, the `lib' prefix is also omitted.
>
> extra_libraries ...
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> The user (myself) thinks at this:
> "HSmypkg" in package specification --> <prefix?>HSmypkg.a
> <prefix?>HSmypkg.o
> in the library directory.
>
> But " `lib' is also omitted " - similarly as `.a'.
> Hence, the library directory should contain
> libHSmypkg.a libHSmypkg.o
> Now, ghci -package-mypkg
>
> sees "HSmypkg" in package specification but searches for the file
> HSmypkg.o.
> It adds `.o', but skips `lib'.
> On the other hand, `.o' has different status, it is separated by
> period. So I wonder.
>
> Regards,
>
> -----------------
> Serge Mechveliani
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