HSQL Linking Problem with ghc6

[Christopher Milton]

I keep only finding a Java SQL interface on SourceForge
when I look for HSQL. What is the URL?

--- Charles Perkins <chuck at memetech.com> wrote:
> Hello Haskellians,
> 
> I have been looking for a way to get ghc-compiled haskell programs to
> talk to a PostgreSQL database, and HSQL seems to be exactly what I
> need... And what's more, it appears to have downloaded and installed
> with minimal hassle...
> 
> Alas (and I am sure this is a problem with my own lack of knowledge or
> misconfiguration of my system) I can't get ghc to link my program to the
> HSQL libHSSql.a library. At least I think that is the problem.
> 
> On my debian-stable system, with some packages and libraries upgraded to
> -testing so I could install ghc6, I downloaded HSQL 1.0 from sourceforge
> and then ./configured with --enable-postgress and told it to make and
> then make -install the HSQL package. When I put an import HSQL statement
> in my program ghc compiles it without errors but the Linking phase
> reports the following (my program name is EnvPassed:)
> 
> Linking ...
> EnvPassed.o: In function `__stginit_main_':
> EnvPassed.o(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `__stginit_HSQL_'
> Collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I get the same error when I do a standard compile and when I specify the
> library to link to as follows: ghc --make EnvPassed.hs -o EnvPassed
> -lHSsql -L/software/HSQL/
> 
> (I had expanded and built HSQL in the /software directory.)
> 
> Am I doing something stupid? What should I check for this kind of error?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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