Re: Replacement for GMP: Update

[Reilly Hayes]

I have a Mac as well, but it is an intel one.  GHC does NOT support dynamic linking of Haskell libraries on intel macs, but C libraries like readline & GMP dynamically link just fine.  For example: $ otool -L /usr/local/ghc/lib/ghc-6.5/ghc-6.5 /usr/local/ghc/lib/ghc-6.5/ghc-6.5:         /usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.0.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)         /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.3)         GMP.framework/Versions/A/GMP (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)    On Aug 10, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Alec Berryman wrote: Reilly Hayes on 2006-08-10 18:36:49 -0700: There's one thing I don't entirely understand about the GMP problem.    I understand that there are some limitations on GHC's ability to   generate relocatable (and therefore dynamically linkable) code on x86   (a register allocation problem related to the mangler if I recall the   comments in the code correctly).  But this shouldn't prohibit linking   GMP in dynamically, should it?  It's just a C library and GCC should   happily generate relocatable code.  As a dynamically linked library,   there should be no tainting issues to worry about even if the   dynamically linked code is shipped with the executable. Am I missing something? No, the LGPL doesn't mandate source redistribution when you redistribute a binary that is dynamically linked to a LGPL-licensed library.  If GHC did support dynamically linking programs, it wouldn't be an issue, but GHC only supports that on OS X.   I was wondering something similar - is it really easier to replace the functionality and speed of GMP than to extend GHC's dynamic library support to other platforms? _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users Reilly Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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