#4068: GHC 6.12.2 on Mac OS X from GHC-6.12.2-i386.pkg fails with "Undefined symbols: "_iconv_close", referenced from: _hs_iconv_close in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o) ..." ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: thorkilnaur | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: Compiler Version: 6.12.2 | Keywords: Os: MacOS X | Testcase: Architecture: x86 | Failure: Other ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- With {{{ $ uname -a Darwin thorkil-naurs-intel-mac-mini.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.2 $ }}} installed from {{{http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.2/GHC-6.12.2-i386.pkg}}}: {{{ $ cat t1.hs import System.IO main = putStrLn "Hello GHC-6.12.2 2010-May-13 13.30" $ ghc --make t1.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( t1.hs, t1.o ) Linking t1 ... Undefined symbols: "_iconv_close", referenced from: _hs_iconv_close in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o) "_iconv", referenced from: _hs_iconv in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o) "_iconv_open", referenced from: _hs_iconv_open in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o) ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status $ }}} Looking at the installed {{{libiconv}}}: {{{ $ nm /opt/local/lib/libiconv.a | grep iconv /opt/local/lib/libiconv.a(iconv.o): 00018c60 D __libiconv_version 00018920 T _iconv_canonicalize 00015f20 T _libiconv 00015f80 T _libiconv_close 00017930 T _libiconv_open 00018150 T _libiconv_open_into 00015fa0 T _libiconvctl 000161e0 T _libiconvlist /opt/local/lib/libiconv.a(localcharset.o): /opt/local/lib/libiconv.a(relocatable.o): 000000f0 T _libiconv_relocate 00000000 T _libiconv_set_relocation_prefix $ }}} Further, in {{{/opt/local/include/iconv.h}}}: {{{ #ifndef LIBICONV_PLUG #define iconv_open libiconv_open #endif extern iconv_t iconv_open (const char* tocode, const char* fromcode); }}} So there is some trickery going on with respect to the names of functions from {{{libiconv}}}, but it is not clear to me how to resolve this.
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