I wrote:
[....] Meanwhile I'll try to dig out a few old emails on this topic. [...]
I've found the relevant thread on this mailing list:
http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/hopengl/2003-December/000459.html
In a nutshell: It seems to be the case that the OpenGL-related dynamic libs on Gentoo are broken, they are probably missing some dependency information. Could you confirm this?
Thanks for the pointer -- I had seen some other thread, but not this one. The dependencies still seem to be "broken" in Gentoo, but apparently SuSE also patches, so it's really broken somewhere else. So, if I understand the situation correctly: reversing the library order in package.conf may work for ghci, and might not do any further harm under Linux at all, but generally is not a good solution because it breaks compilation on some other platforms. Therefore it would be better to integrate the dependencies between the libararies properly into the .so files. How that can be done, I have no clue -- I really am no C programmer; but you gave the hint with the SuSE source rpm, so I have a place to start. I will try to investigate further ... Andres