Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 16:26 schrieb Dominic Steinitz:

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/ Can anyone tell me why ghci has this problem whereas ghc itself doesn't and />/ how I fix it. />/ />/ Thanks, Dominic. />/ />/ [dom at tility <http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries> LAMH]$ ghci -package hsql-mysql />/ ___ ___ _ />/ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) />/ / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.4, for Haskell 98. />/ / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ />/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. />/ />/ Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done. />/ Loading package hsql-1.6 ... linking ... done. />/ Loading package hsql-mysql-1.6 ... ghc-6.4: can't load .so/.DLL for: c />/ (/usr/lib/libc.so: invalid ELF header) />/ [...] / It looks like the package description of hsql-mysql explicitly mentions "-lc" for linking (or something like that). Simply removing that superfluous flag should fix the problem, but I'm only guessing here, as I've never used that package.

Cheers, S.

Sven, Thanks for the suggestion but it's not obvious to me what I'm looking for. Here's the package description. Dominic. [dom@tility HSQL]$ ghc-pkg describe hsql-mysql name: hsql-mysql version: 1.6 license: BSD3 copyright: maintainer: stability: homepage: package-url: description: MySQL driver for HSQL. category: Database author: Krasimir Angelov <kr.angelov@gmail.com> exposed: True exposed-modules: Database.HSQL.MySQL hidden-modules: import-dirs: /usr/local/lib/hsql-mysql-1.6/ghc-6.4 library-dirs: /usr/local/lib/hsql-mysql-1.6/ghc-6.4 /usr//lib/mysql hs-libraries: HShsql-mysql-1.6 extra-libraries: mysqlclient z crypt nsl m c nss_files nss_dns resolv include-dirs: /usr//include/mysql includes: depends: base-1.0 hsql-1.6 hugs-options: cc-options: -mcpu=i486 -fno-strength-reduce -IDatabase/HSQL ld-options: framework-dirs: frameworks: haddock-interfaces: haddock-html: