ghc-pkg -g fails on Solaris

[Axel Simon]

On 18 Jan 2005, at 15:12, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On all Unix platforms except Darwin, ghc-pkg calls:
> ld -r -x -o HSfoo.o --whole-archive libHSfoo.a
>
> See:
> ghc/utils/ghc-pkg/Main.hs, function autoBuildGHCiLib
>
> This works for the GNU linker. For the Solaris linker (which takes the
> name "ld", GNU ld gets "gld" if it's installed) this does not work.
>
> The Solaris linker does not understand the -x or --whole-archive flags.

I built GHC by setting some funny autoconf variables to the GNU 
versions of the linker and the archiver. However, the real bug, IMHO, 
is that ghc-pkg uses "ld" in the current search path instead of the one 
ghc was configured with. GNU ld has the nice side effect that it is 
much faster than Sun's ld. The only way seems to build the ghci library 
by hand.

Axel.