Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec requires -package text.

[Dean Herington]

At 1:52 PM +0100 9/6/04, Simon Marlow wrote:
>On 06 September 2004 13:43, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>
>>  * The link step needs -package flags, because it only gets .o files,
>>  and we didn't want it to start hunting through .hi files (though that
>>  would be possible)
>
>Just to expand on this a little: it's not clear that we could do this
>even if we wanted to.  Given an arbitrary .o file, we can't tell (a) if
>it is a compiled Haskell module and (b) if so, where its .hi file can be
>found.  We can make guesses, but there isn't a general solution.
>Guessing is a bit distasteful because guaranteed there would be people
>who would be confused when the guesses turned out to be wrong for their
>specific situation.

Couldn't the .hi file contents be put in the .o file itself, in a 
separate section not loaded into memory?  The presence of such a 
section would indicate that the .o file was compiled Haskell (or, 
perhaps, compiled GHC).  Tool and platform restrictions admittedly 
might make this difficult or impractical.

Dean