From: simonmar <unknown>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:13:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 2004-05-24 09:13:21 by simonmar]
X-Git-Tag: Initial_conversion_from_CVS_complete~1831
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5220fda752f65ac62bd9f5269c11a7f345293f69;p=ghc-hetmet.git

[project @ 2004-05-24 09:13:21 by simonmar]
Comment update
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diff --git a/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs b/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
index ebccb9f..ffd16e2 100644
--- a/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
@@ -778,9 +778,13 @@ linkPackage dflags pkg
             -- dlopen-ing A with RTLD_NOW (see addDLL in Linker.c) will fail
             -- when B has not been loaded before. In a nutshell: Reverse the
             -- order of DLLs for dynamic linking.
+	    -- This fixes a problem with the HOpenGL package (see "Compiling
+	    -- HOpenGL under recent versions of GHC" on the HOpenGL list).
 	    mapM_ (load_dyn dirs) (reverse dlls)
 	
 	-- After loading all the DLLs, we can load the static objects.
+	-- Ordering isn't important here, because we do one final link
+	-- step to resolve everything.
 	mapM_ loadObj objs
 
         maybePutStr dflags "linking ... "