ghc - force library search order

[Simon Marlow]

On 29/05/2009 15:19, John Lask wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Coutts"
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>
> To: "John Lask" <jvlask at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc - force library search order
>
>
>> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 18:08 +1000, John Lask wrote:
>>> I need to force a library to be searched for unresolved symbols after
>>> all
>>> other libraries have been searched, and I would rather not resort to
>>> constructing the linker command line directly. Is there a way to do
>>> this?
>>>
>>> i.e. I want for example -lfoo to appear after all other haskell
>>> libraries
>>> and before system libraries (for example -lmsvcrt) once ghc has
>>> constructed
>>> the link command. i.e. how is it possible to coerce ghc into respecting
>>> dependencies between the libraries. GHC does a good job in general with
>>> native libraries, but there are allways corner cases.
>>>
>>> I have a feeling this is not possible, but it dosn't hurt to ask.

No, there's currently no way to inject flags that come *after* the 
linker flags for the packages on the linker command line.

It might help if you describe at a higher level what it is you're trying 
to do.  There might be a better way to achieve it.

Cheers,
	Simon