#5289: Can't use ghci with a library linked against libstdc++
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Reporter: bos | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.2.1
Component: GHCi | Version: 7.0.3
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: GHCi crash
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Comment(by simonmar):
Just to clarify: GHCi searches the library paths from the package to find
shared libs, and if it doesn't find the library there, then it tries
calling `dlopen` without an explicit path, so that `dlopen` will search
the standard system locations (the cache is a red herring, it just caches
the contents of the system paths). `libstdc++` is unusual in that the
`.so` link is not in one of the standard system paths, it is somewhere
like `/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3`, which is known only to gcc and
not to `ld.so`, hence it cannot be found by `dlopen`.
The easiest fix is to add a backup plan to GHCi's search strategy, namely
to invoke `gcc --print-file-name=libfoo.so`.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5289#comment:23>
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