Glynn Clements wrote:
Regarding the above citation, note that an "archive" is a *static* library (i.e. a ".a" file). The ordering doesn't matter for linking dynamic libraries.
Sorry, I should have been clearer: The citation makes it clear that reversing the order will *definitely* lead to trouble when linking statically (e.g. on Solaris, IIRC).
[...] If the library lists in package.conf are being used for both purposes (i.e. ld and dlopen()), they should probably processed in opposing directions for dlopen() vs ld.
This sounds like a cunning idea and should be easy to implement, :-) probably by reversing "dlls" in the following line of Linker.linkPackage: ... mapM_ (load_dyn dirs) dlls ... SimonM? Cheers, S.