On 2006-08-30, John Goerzen wrote:

On 2006-08-24, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Maybe, if you send a patch today...

Well, it's a little late, but I've sent a patch along. I'll be working on getpwent/getgrent yet and should send a patch for that shortly.

FWIW: I have tried to test the new code, but can't, because I'm getting this when I run ghci -package unix: Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package unix-1.0 ... linking ... ghc-6.4.2: /tmp/lib/unix-1.0/ghc-6.4.2/HSunix-1.0.o: unknown symbol `lstat' ghc-6.4.2: unable to load package `unix-1.0' This is on GHC 6.4.2, so I'm not sure what's going on. -- John

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:03:21PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

John Goerzen wrote:

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Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package unix-1.0 ... linking ... ghc-6.4.2: /tmp/lib/unix-1.0/ghc-6.4.2/HSunix-1.0.o: unknown symbol `lstat' ghc-6.4.2: unable to load package `unix-1.0'

This is on GHC 6.4.2, so I'm not sure what's going on.

Interesting, I don't know why that might happen, but I do recally someone else reporting the same thing.

I don't have any references to 'lstat' from my HSunix.o.

it's in System/Posix/Files.hsc, getSymbolicLinkStatus. However there may be some header file magic going on, as that function is often converted to lstat64 or something depending on what macros are defined.

Did you compile up this package using Cabal? I wonder if it is perhaps because it wasn't compiled with -fvia-C, or something.

Yes. Ian Lynagh, in trying to solve a different problem, suggested I try using ghc instead of ghci. I thought he was talking about this problem, and magically it worked. So I will go ahead and do my testing. Maybe we are just being lucky because I don't need to test getSymbolicLinkStatus, but hey, that's good enough for me. -- John