> 2003年06月17日(火)の20時15分に Simon Marlow 曰く:
> >  > What seems to be happening is that the Arrow module in gtk2hs is
> > > clashing with the Arrow module in the lang package. As far as 
> > > I can tell
> > > this all looks perfectly normal, so why don't we this 
> kind of problem
> > > all the time? What's special about Arrow?
> > > 
> > > How does it get resolved in the libHS*.a case? How does the 
> > > system linker resolve the ambiguity when ghci's linker cannot?
> > 
> > The static linker will simply pick the first 
> __stginit_Arrow it finds
> > when searching libraries.  In actual fact, you're better 
> off with the
> > linking error, because the static linking behaviour is 
> likely to result
> > in crashes at runtime.
> 
> I see, interesting.
> 
> In this case gtk2hs.o was generated by ghc-pkg, but naively, 
> can I ask,
> is it not possible to detect this claiming of module names at 
> buildtime?

Yes, in theory, but it would mean searching the entire search path to find all the .hi 
files for a module, rather than stopping as soon as you've found one.

Cheers,
        Simon
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