Problem running X11 on PPC Mac

[Gregory Wright]

Hi Brad,

On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Brad wrote:

> On 13/11/06, Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Brad,
>>
>> Did you apply the recent X11 update from Apple after you compiled
>> ghc?
> I did.
>
>> If so, you might try uninstalling, cleaning and rebuilding the
>> macports ghc.
>
> I did try that, and got:
>
> $ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib ghci -package X11-1.1
>  ___         ___ _
> / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
> / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.6, for Haskell  
> 98.
> / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.
>
> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
> ghc-6.6:
> /opt/local/lib/ghc-6.6/HSX11_cbits.o: unknown symbol `_printf 
> $LDBLStub'
> Loading package X11-1.1 ... linking ... ghc-6.6: unable to load  
> package `X11-1.1
> '
>

I think I remember seeing something like this.  I'll look into it  
some more.

> This is after I uninstalled, removed the package, and recompiled ghc,
> yesterday (that is to say, after I updated the Apple X11):
>
> $ ls -lT /opt/local/bin/ghc
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  7 Nov 12 18:36:50 2006 /opt/local/bin/ 
> ghc -> ghc-6.6
> $ ls -lT /opt/local/var/db/dports/packages/darwin/powerpc/ghc-6.6_1 
> +darwin_8_powerpc.powerpc.tgz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  59818580 Nov 12 18:36:14 2006
> /opt/local/var/db/dports/packages/darwin/powerpc/ghc-6.6_1 
> +darwin_8_powerpc.powerpc.tgz
>
> Why does the Apple X11 always have to break things?
>
>> There is a path issue; you should not have to specify
>> DYLIB_LIBRARY_PATH.
>> At least in macports, this should be easy to fix.
> I guess so - I had a look at the portfile and it seems that the syntax
> is straightforward enough, but I have no experience fiddling with
> that. But that's a separate issue, right?
>

I already tweak the script that invokes ghc/ghci to find the  
libraries installed
by macports. Tweaking it a bit more is not a big deal.  But I would  
like to
understand the unknown symbol problem first.

Best,
Greg

> Any other ideas?
>
> In any case, thanks for your help.
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