Re: bug in package.conf (ghci -package OpenGL / ghci -package GLUT)

Marc A. Ziegert wrote:
> [...] what is the ghc option to link statically?

Static linking (-static) is the default, I've never tried dynamic linking
(-dynamic). A request for the latter one pops up quite regularly, but there
are a few reasons why it is not necessarily desirable (=> mailing list archives).

> coeus@titan ~ $ cat /usr/lib/libGLU.la [...]

 From this you can see that the library dependencies are not quite right on
your platform (see the lines starting with "dependency_libs" and "NEEDED").
This is what the final result should look like (modulo some minor differences):

panne@jeanluc:~> objdump -p /usr/lib/libglut.so | grep NEEDED
   NEEDED      libSM.so.6
   NEEDED      libICE.so.6
   NEEDED      libXmu.so.6
   NEEDED      libXext.so.6
   NEEDED      libXi.so.6
   NEEDED      libX11.so.6
   NEEDED      libGLU.so.1
   NEEDED      libc.so.6
panne@jeanluc:~> objdump -p /usr/lib/libGLU.so | grep NEEDED
   NEEDED      libGL.so.1
   NEEDED      libm.so.6
   NEEDED      libgcc_s.so.1
   NEEDED      libc.so.6
panne@jeanluc:~> objdump -p /usr/lib/libGL.so | grep NEEDED
   NEEDED      libGLcore.so.1
   NEEDED      libm.so.6
   NEEDED      libXext.so.6
   NEEDED      libX11.so.6
   NEEDED      libdl.so.2

I've just had a look at SuSE's source RPM for GLUT/GLU/GL, and they actually
do some patching (especially in the Makefile.am files) to get the dependencies
right. Perhaps the gentoo people should have a look at this. :-)

Cheers,
    S.