On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:27:21AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 10 February 2005 23:35, Ian Lynagh wrote:
I'm no library expert, so there may be a cleaner/simpler/more portable equivalent to the above.
I'm not that familiar with libtool, but I guess what you're doing here is creating a dummy shared library which is linked against -lpthread, and linking that into GHCi?
Yup.
I don't see any reason why we couldn't automate the process, except that getting all the fiddly details right would probably be a nightmare.
Like I say, I'm no expert either :-(
And would you require libtool to be installed? What about other platforms - Mac OS X?
If the necessary bits aren't available then you can fall back to acting like -optl-foo and are no worse off than currently. I think libtool is supposed to take care of the portability side for you, so hopefully lots of special casing won't be necessary. I don't know how well that works in practice, though. Thanks Ian