17 Jun
2003
17 Jun
'03
11:15 a.m.
What seems to be happening is that the Arrow module in gtk2hs is clashing with the Arrow module in the lang package. As far as I can tell this all looks perfectly normal, so why don't we this kind of problem all the time? What's special about Arrow?
How does it get resolved in the libHS*.a case? How does the system linker resolve the ambiguity when ghci's linker cannot?
The static linker will simply pick the first __stginit_Arrow it finds when searching libraries. In actual fact, you're better off with the linking error, because the static linking behaviour is likely to result in crashes at runtime. Cheers, Simon