#12875: GHC fails to link all StaticPointers-defining modules of a library in an executable -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Resolution: | Keywords: | StaticPointers Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by mboes):
That failing, the simplest solution could be to document that the module defining static pointers needs to be imported transitively into the main module of an executable supposed to find them.
That solution would be as anti-modular as non StaticPtr remote tables. Losing modularity would defeat much of the purpose of this language extension. Surely we can let the linker know that downstream modules *might* depend on `ALib.Things`? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12875#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler