On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:45, Isaac Jones wrote: > There has been a lot of discussion recently on the Haskell mailing > lists about the best ways to package Haskell libraries and tools for > Debian. The main issues are: > > 1) there are a variety of "compiler" implementations, one of which is > an interpreter :) > > 2) not all Haskell implementations are available on all architectures > (ghc for instance) > > 3) just about every Haskell "compiler" and release is > binary-incompatible, (except maybe for nhc98).
You might be able to apply the same techniques applied to C++ libs which suffer the same ABI-incompatibility. Currently, the workaround is to postfix the libs with a string-tag for the compiler-ABI. Hmmm, I just wonder: is it true that there is no solution for supporting different ABIs but rather just a transition-plan ? An imho real fix (afaik) encompasses an extension to the ELF-format/dynamic linker and is not due in the near future. Uli
