[Fwd: Re: Problem building hdbc-sqlite3 with ghc 6.8.2]

[Christian Maeder]

Did a final "runhaskell Setup.lhs install" work for you, Emmanuel?

Thanks, Wolfgang

Cheers Christian

Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
> On 3-Jan-08, at 4:47 PM, Christian Maeder wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> can someone explain the linking error below? (on Intel-Mac (Tiger?))
>>
>> Preprocessing library HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0...
>> Building HDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0...
>> [1 of 7] Compiling Database.HDBC.Sqlite3.Consts ( dist/build/Database/
>> HDBC/Sqlite3/Consts.hs, dist/build/Database/HDBC/Sqlite3/Consts.o )
> [...]
>> ar: creating archive dist/build/libHSHDBC-sqlite3-1.1.3.0.a
>> ld: atom sorting error for
>> _HDBCzmsqlite3zm1zi1zi3zi0_DatabaseziHDBCziSqlite3ziTypes_CSqlite3_closure_tbl
>>
> [...]
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, this is harmless and can be ignored.
> Linking continues after this message is printed, and I haven't yet found
> any adverse side-effects.
> 
> The message is triggered (in Apple's recently-rewritten linker) when
> there are two or more labels pointing to the very end of a section in an
> object file. This sometimes happens when empty _closure_tbls are emitted
> by GHC; it's probably not too hard to prevent this from happening.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wolfgang
>