Dynamic libraries and GHCi

[John Lato]

> From: Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
>>
>
>> But currently there is one problem with "GhcShared=YES": with this
>> option, the stage-2 compiler gets linked dynamically but the
>> corresponding inplace shell wrapper does not set (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
>> thus ./inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 doesn't run at all. I could work around
>> this by manually symlinking all the dynamic libraries to ./inplace/lib
>> and setting (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH to there, but obvisouly there should
>> be a solution better than this.
>
> On Linux we link the binary using -rpath (I know OS X doesn't have
> -rpath).  This is another issue we need to resolve before we can switch
> to a dynamically-linked GHCi.
>
> Basically there's a fair bit to do to make a dynamic GHCi a reality, and
> before we can do anything there are some tricky decisions to make.
>

When you say OSX doesn't have -rpath, do you mean there's some problem
with using -rpath on OSX?  I have code that links to a 3rd-party
library (libcudart.dylib) at runtime and it seems to use -rpath fine.
This is with ghc-6.12.1.

John