I'm linking with a .a file built from C; when I do this on a C program I do something like: gcc myfile.c -o myout theafile.a so i tried ghc MyFile.hs -o myout -optctheafile.a but this doesn't appear to pass the paramter. when i run with -v3 and inspect the call to gcc it doesn't include this option. if i copy that call to gcc and add it maually at the command line, everything's cool thoughts? - hal -- Hal Daume III "Computer science is no more about computers | hdaume@isi.edu than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume