Re: ghci failed to load static archive

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:12:39AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> GHCi can't load .a libraries.  The documentation (sec. 4.10.3) explains how 
> to turn a .a library into a .o that GHCi can load:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/packages.html#BUILDING-PACKAGES

It still doesn't load for me.  Is it worth figuring out?  I don't
understand the fudgets build process at all, so I don't know if it's
doing something strange or whether this is supported at all.
However, if you feel like tracking this down, here is the error.  I
created the ghci command line based on what ghcxmake does.

    % ghci -fglasgow-exts -package lang -package base 
-i/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext  
/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets/Fudget*.o            
       ___         ___ _
      / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
     / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.0.1, for Haskell 98.
    / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
    \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

    Loading package base ... linking ... done.
    Loading package lang ... linking ... done.
    Loading object (static) 
/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets/FudgetsXlib.o ... done
    Loading object (static) 
/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets/Fudgets.o ... done
    Loading object (dynamic) X11 ... done
    Loading object (dynamic) Xext ... done
    final link ... /home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets/Fudgets.o: 
unknown symbol `__stginit_Maybe_'
    ghc-6.0.1: linking extra libraries/objects failed

For reference, here is a ghcxmake command:

    % ~/local/fudgets/bin/ghcxmake counter
    ghc  -fglasgow-exts -package lang -package base   
-i/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets  -c  -o counter.o counter.hs
    ghc  -fglasgow-exts -package lang -package base   
-i/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets   -o counter counter.o  
-L/home/pimlott/local/fudgets/lib/GhcFudgets -lFudgets -lFudgetsXlib 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext

Software versions:
    gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)
    GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.4 20030523 Debian GNU/Linux

Andrew