[GHC] #2615: ghci doesn't play nice with linker scripts

[GHC]

#2615: ghci doesn't play nice with linker scripts
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  Reporter:  AlecBerryman                 |          Owner:                         
      Type:  bug                          |         Status:  new                    
  Priority:  high                         |      Milestone:  6.12.3                 
 Component:  GHCi                         |        Version:  6.10.1                 
Resolution:                               |       Keywords:  dlopen, dynamic linking
  Testcase:                               |      Blockedby:                         
Difficulty:  Unknown                      |             Os:  Linux                  
  Blocking:                               |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple       
   Failure:  Incorrect result at runtime  |  
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Changes (by greenrd):

  * owner:  igloo =>
  * status:  closed => new
  * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 This still doesn't work for me with ghc 7.0.2 on Fedora 15.

 The file /usr/lib/libncursesw.so contained the text
 INPUT(libncursesw.so.5 -ltinfo)

 ghc gave the error "file too short". I know this bug has recently been
 fixed, so I tried to make the linker produce the other error message,
 "invalid ELF header", by adding lots of newlines onto the end of the file.
 It does change the error message:

 Loading package terminfo-0.3.1.3 ... <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL
 for: ncursesw (/usr/lib/libncursesw.so: invalid ELF header)

 but ghc doesn't pick up on the error message and do the right thing.

 I think this error arises from an attempt to use Template Haskell, rather
 than ghci - could this be relevant?

 Or did my newlines mess it up somehow?

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