[project @ 2004-05-24 09:13:21 by simonmar]

Comment update

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs b/ghc/compiler/ghci/Linker.lhs
index ebccb9f..ffd16e2 100644 (file)
--- 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 ... "