RE: cabal: library archive index and Mac OS X?

On 21 March 2005 07:55, Isaac Jones wrote:

Wolfgang Thaller writes:

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The index stores a time stamp; if the .a file's modification date is newer, then ld will refuse to load from it until you re-run ranlib. This commonly happens when you first build your .a files and then touch their modification date while installing.

Owch. That's some odd behavior; any links to an explanation for why it works that way? Does this happen on other arches?

I don't see a cabal-side workaround... maybe GHC should run ranlib before linking? Is there any drawback to that? Are there any flags to ln to change this behavior?

Can't you run ranlib after install? It wouldn't be right for GHC to run ranlib, because the libraries might not be writable by the current user. Cheers, Simon