Ticket #3635 (closed bug: fixed)
base-3-compat with 6.12 won't load in GHCi, Template Haskell on Windows
| Reported by: | guest | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 6.12.1 |
| Component: | libraries/base | Version: | 6.12.1 RC1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | batterseapower@…, ndmitchell@… | |
| Operating System: | Windows | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple |
| Type of failure: | Difficulty: | Unknown | |
| Test Case: | Blocked By: | ||
| Blocking: | Related Tickets: |
Description
base3-compat/GHC/Handle.hs needs:
#ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS .. #endif
Wrapped around its export for and definition of unlockFile. This is because unlockFile is a RTS symbol that is only compiled on non-Windows OSes. This #ifdef exists in base4, it looks like it was just omitted from base3.
The result of this bug is that any package using base 3 doesn’t work with template-haskell or GHCi:
$ ghci -package base-3.0.3.2
WARNING: GHCi invoked via 'ghci.exe' in *nix-like shells (cygwin-bash, in particular)
doesn't handle Ctrl-C well; use the 'ghcii.sh' shell wrapper instead
GHCi, version 6.12.0.20091010: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package syb-0.1.0.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package base-3.0.3.2 ... linking ... : unable to load package `base-3.0.3.2'
: C:\ghc\GHC-61~2.200\lib\base-3.0.3.2\HSbase-3.0.3.2.o: unknown symbol `_unlockFile'
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