#9498: GHC links against unversioned .so files ------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: Kritzefitz | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler (FFI) | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: Debian | Operating System: Linux Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: Other Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: ------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Greetings, GHC tries to load unversioned dynamic libraries instead of versioned (i.e. libfoo.so instead of libfoo.so.1.2.3). This is a problem, since Distributions like Debian (I don't know about other distributions) don't include unversioned .SOs in their runtime packages and the unversioned are only available in the -dev packages as a symlink to the verioned ones. This means FFI libraries depend on the -dev packages, even though they don't really need them. It would be nice if GHC would try to load the versioned libraries as well. Regards Sven -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9498 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler