Re: ghc 6.0.1 and Mac OS X 10.2.6 build

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:

> Sorry for my silence in the past week.
> While your patch should work, I remember seeing C code that uses 
> function names like "foo" and "_foo" in the same way that a Haskell 
> programmer might use foo and foo', so I had a bad feeling about 
> automatically trying both.
> I've just commited a patch (rev 1.129 on the head and 1.128.2.1 on the 
> 6.2 branch) that just bypasses dlcompat for lookupSymbol only. It uses 
> NSLookupAndBindSymbol directly, so we don't need to worry about 
> differences between dlcompat versions any more.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

Excellent. I'll update the darwinports version as soon as 6.2 becomes 
available and
back out my patch.

The fink/non-fink dlcompat issue comes up a lot. You approach to avoid 
it is best.

Thanks,
Greg