[Haskell-cafe] Haskell 6.6 problem

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

dfeustel:
> make and make install of ghc 6.6 completed successfully,
> but exe generated by ghc fails to load.
> 
> ===test.hs===
> main :: IO()
> main =	putStr "This is a test\n"
> =============
> 
> ghc test.hs 
> compilation IS NOT required
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgmp
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Is there a simple way to fix this?
> 

that's a missing argument to ld to tell it to look in /usr/local for
openbsd libs. 

Edit:
    ~/lib/ghc-6.6/package.conf

under wherever you installed ghc 6.6.  and add:

    "-L/usr/local/lib"

to this ldOptions field. So it looks like this:

    ..., ldOptions = ["-L/usr/local/lib","-u","base_GHCziBase_Izh_static_info", ...

that should ensure libgmp if always found by the linker.

-- Don