[project @ 2002-10-25 15:57:03 by simonpj]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / compiler / ghci / Linker.lhs

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs b/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
index 7f34acb..b2e07e3 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ necessary.
 {-# OPTIONS -optc-DNON_POSIX_SOURCE #-}
 
 module Linker ( HValue, initLinker, showLinkerState,
-               linkPackages, linkLibraries, findLinkable,
-               linkModules, unload, extendLinkEnv, linkExpr,
+               findLinkable,
+               linkLibraries, linkExpr,
+               unload, extendLinkEnv, 
                LibrarySpec(..)
        ) where
 
@@ -630,6 +631,13 @@ linkPackages :: DynFlags -> [PackageName] -> IO ()
 -- (unless of course they are already linked)
 -- The dependents are linked automatically, and it doesn't matter
 -- what order you specify the input packages.
+--
+-- NOTE: in fact, since each module tracks all the packages it depends on,
+--      we don't really need to use the package-config dependencies.
+-- However we do need the package-config stuff (to find aux libs etc),
+-- and following them lets us load libraries in the right order, which 
+-- perhaps makes the error message a bit more localised if we get a link
+-- failure.  So the dependency walking code is still here.
 
 linkPackages dflags new_pkgs
    = do        { pls     <- readIORef v_PersistentLinkerState