Re: [HOpenGL] renderString not working in ghci

2009-06-02 Thread Simon Marlow
On 01/06/2009 23:39, Sven Panne wrote: So my question is again: Why is -fPIC not the default for GHC on x86_64? If we don't want the overhead, that's OK (any benchmark numbers?), but then GHC's documentation should really contain a big, fat warning that GHCi's dynamic linker gets cases like the

Re: [HOpenGL] renderString not working in ghci

2009-06-01 Thread Sven Panne
[ Reprise of an old GHCi problem, GHC HQ read on please... ] Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 09:24:14 schrieb Matthijs Kooijman: I've been playing around with GLUT (latest version from hackage, on Debian) a bit yesterday and am having some troubles with renderString. It works fine when I compile a

Re: [HOpenGL] renderString not working in ghci

2009-06-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 20:05 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: [ Reprise of an old GHCi problem, GHC HQ read on please... ] Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 09:24:14 schrieb Matthijs Kooijman: I've been playing around with GLUT (latest version from hackage, on Debian) a bit yesterday and am having some

Re: [HOpenGL] renderString not working in ghci

2009-06-01 Thread Sven Panne
Am Montag, 1. Juni 2009 22:48:56 schrieb Duncan Coutts: I don't know how the problem reported in that message is related to the renderString problem (which I do not understand), but the behaviour you see there is not terribly surprising. It's an artefact of the way dynamic linking works and