RE: `panic' with packages

On 26 May 2004 06:58, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:

> Dear GHC team,
> 
> In my previous letter I wrote about a bug-like message in
>                                       cvs ghc-6-2-branch  of May 24
> 
> (the fragments of this letter are appended).
> 
> And in this situation GHC also responds badly if the user forgets
> to include a package.
> 
>   > cd foo
>   foo> ghci $pcpfoo $pcpdocon
> 
>   performs correct.
> 
> And if the user forgets to include the package  docon,  then it
> happens
>         foo> ghci $pcpfoo
> 
>   Loading package foo ... linking ...
>   /home/mechvel/t/u/lib/HSfoo.o: unknown symbol `__stginit_Prelude_'
>   ghc-6.2.1: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.2.1):
>         can't load package `foo'
>   Please report it as a compiler bug to
>   glasgow-haskell-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx, or
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/. 

It looks like your packages are missing some dependencies.  Most
packages should depend on at least 'base', unless they depend on it
indirectly.  Perhaps your 'foo' package should have a dependency on
'docon'?

Cheers,
        Simon