On Monday 24 November 2008 23:15, Barney Stratford wrote:
There's good news and bad news. The good news is that the compilation of my shiny almost-new GHC is complete. The bad news is, it won't link. It's grumbling about
ld: /System/Fink/src/fink.build/ghc-6.8.2-1/ghc-6.8.2/rts/libHSrts.a(PrimOps.o) has external relocation entries in non-writable section (__TEXT,__text) for symbols: ___gmpn_cmp ----------- etc. ----------
IMO, many apple dev. tools are insidiously broken (Apple's cpp is my current nemesis). Could you try using a different linker? That might be a sufficient workaround. You could call gcc with the correct arguments to complete the linking phase, rather than ld (or vice-versa). The only other suggestion I've seen is to re-order the exported functions before compiling the library. I don't know if this would help in your case, but it has worked with other libraries. That's the best I can suggest, anyway. John