Marc A. Ziegert wrote:
[...] what is the ghc option to link statically?
Static linking (-static) is the default, I've never tried dynamic linking (-dynamic). A request for the latter one pops up quite regularly, but there are a few reasons why it is not necessarily desirable (=> mailing list archives).
coeus@titan ~ $ cat /usr/lib/libGLU.la [...]
From this you can see that the library dependencies are not quite right on your platform (see the lines starting with "dependency_libs" and "NEEDED"). This is what the final result should look like (modulo some minor differences): panne@jeanluc:~> objdump -p /usr/lib/libglut.so | grep NEEDED NEEDED libSM.so.6 NEEDED libICE.so.6 NEEDED libXmu.so.6 NEEDED libXext.so.6 NEEDED libXi.so.6 NEEDED libX11.so.6 NEEDED libGLU.so.1 NEEDED libc.so.6 panne@jeanluc:~> objdump -p /usr/lib/libGLU.so | grep NEEDED NEEDED libGL.so.1 NEEDED libm.so.6 NEEDED libgcc_s.so.1 NEEDED libc.so.6 panne@jeanluc:~> objdump -p /usr/lib/libGL.so | grep NEEDED NEEDED libGLcore.so.1 NEEDED libm.so.6 NEEDED libXext.so.6 NEEDED libX11.so.6 NEEDED libdl.so.2 I've just had a look at SuSE's source RPM for GLUT/GLU/GL, and they actually do some patching (especially in the Makefile.am files) to get the dependencies right. Perhaps the gentoo people should have a look at this. :-) Cheers, S.