haskell static libraries issue on Solaris 10 x86...

[Christian Maeder]

Simon Marlow schrieb:
> Christian Maeder wrote:
>> Simon Marlow schrieb:
[...]
>>> I guess we should just eliminate the .size directives if the linker is
>>> going to be picky about them.  In ghc-asm.lprl you'll find
>>>
>>>     $T_COPY_DIRVS   = '^\s*\.(globl|type|size|local)';
>>>
>>> if you change it to
>>>
>>>     $T_COPY_DIRVS   = '^\s*\.(globl|local)';
[...]
> Should be ok, yes.  The .size and .type information is only used when
> linking dynamically (at least on platforms I'm familiar with, which
> doesn't include Solaris), and we're only using static libraries here.
> 
> It might be more correct for _info symbols to get .type function, since
> they're followed by code.  I don't think we should worry about this though.

Ok, I've created a binary dist with this change, but I cannot test it
with Solaris 11 linkers, currently.

http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/pc-solaris/versions/new-ghc-6.6.1-i386-unknown-solaris2.tar.bz2

Rod (or Stefan) could you try to test this distribution with your
various linkers as follows:

cd ghc-6.6.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/ghc-6.6.1
gmake install
export PATH=$HOME/ghc-6.6.1/bin:$PATH
ghc --make hello.hs

where hello.hs contains:
main = putStrLn "hello"

I expect Rod's modified linker to just emit a warning and the Solaris 11
linker (ld 5.11-1.555) still to fail.

Cheers Christian