problem with unix package

Frederik Eaton frederik at a5.repetae.net
Thu Apr 19 10:10:10 EDT 2007


Thanks. How do I get the HEAD?

Frederik

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:53:20AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:27:01PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am having trouble loading the unix package. I am not sure what I am
> > doing wrong. I have just installed it from hackage. As you can see
> > below, the error message complains about an unknown symbol 'lstat',
> > which is not in libc.
> > 
> > [1]$ ghci -package unix                  
> >    ___         ___ _
> >   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
> >  / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.6, for Haskell 98.
> > / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> > \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.
> > 
> > Loading package base ... linking ... done.
> > ghc-6.6: /home/frederik/lib/unix-2.0/ghc-6.6/HSunix-2.0.o: unknown symbol `lstat'
> > Loading package unix-2.0 ... linking ... ghc-6.6: unable to load package `unix-2.0'
> > [1]$ nm -D /lib/libc-2.5.so | grep -w lstat   
> > [1]$ 
> > 
> > This is an unstable Debian installation.
> > 
> > When I try the same on a system with ghc 6.4.2 and unix-1.0, there is
> > no problem. That system has libc 2.3.6, which also lacks an 'lstat'
> > symbol.
> > 
> > Thank you for your help.
> 
> This is a duplicate of an already reported bug, fixed in HEAD.
> (unfortunately I can't find the number today)
> 
> Stefan
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