link problem under macosx

[Christian Maeder]

Am 03.11.2010 11:59, schrieb John Lato:
>     From: Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com <mailto:simon at joyful.com>>
> 
>     On 11/2/10 10:20 AM, John Lato wrote:
>     > Since Apple seems disinclined to fix the system's libiconv, and
>     macports projects refuse to use it, the only real
>     > solution is to use either HP without macports or the macports GHC
>     without HP.  Personally I chose to use the HP and
> 
>     Not so, as mentioned you just need to make sure /usr/lib is in the
>     link path before /opt/local/lib. Add -L/usr/lib to
>     your build flags for ghc --make, and put:
> 
>     extra-lib-dirs: /usr/lib
>     extra-lib-dirs: /opt/local/lib
> 
>     in that order in ~/.cabal/config for cabal build.
> 
>     This is a very FAQ and needs to be documented somewhere more
>     obvious, I wonder where. cabal-install and GHC release notes ?
> 
> 
> As I mentioned in another reply, this worked for me until I tried to
> link to a macports lib (I think some regex lib) that actually used the
> macports libiconv (a lot of them don't even if they pull in the
> dependency).  Then I was really stuck because I had dependencies on two
> different libiconv's, and neither one would link properly.
> 
> As such, I consider this a pretty fragile "solution".

Right, therefore I've reopened
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4068

Christian

> 
> John