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(BTW, shouldn't there be a category in the sourceforge
bug-reporting page for "ghci"?)

ghci reports all dlopen() errors as "Can't find
(dynamic) ...".  This misleading error message wasted
quite a bit of my time trying to figure out why it
couldn't find the library that was "right there".

For example:
galaxy% ghci -lXpm
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version
5.02, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package std ... linking ... done.
Loading object (dynamic) Xpm ... failed.
Can't find (dynamic) Xpm in directories:
ghc-5.02: user specified .o/.so/.DLL could not be
loaded.
galaxy%

ghci reported that it couldn't find a dynamic libXpm. 
However, a little peeking with ltrace reveals the real
problem:

galaxy% ltrace -e 'dlerror,dlopen' -s 300 
/usr/lib/ghc-5.02/ghc-5.02 -B/usr/lib/ghc-5.02
--interactive -lXpm
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version
5.02, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

dlopen(NULL, 1)                                   =
0x400153d8
Loading package std ... --- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer
expired) ---
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
linking ... --- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
done.
Loading object (dynamic) Xpm ... dlopen("libXpm.so",
258)                          = NULL
dlerror()                                         =
"/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so: undefined symbol:
XDefaultScreen"
failed.
Can't find (dynamic) Xpm in directories:
ghc-5.02: user specified .o/.so/.DLL could not be
loaded.

Armed with the real error message from dlerror()
("undefined symbol: XDefaultScreen"), I can deduce that
I really need to use -lX11 as well.

galaxy% ghci -lXpm -lX11
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version
5.02, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package std ... linking ... done.
Loading object (dynamic) X11 ... done
Loading object (dynamic) Xpm ... done
final link ... done.
Prelude> 

As expected, this works fine.

galaxy% uname -a
Linux galaxy 2.4.14-pre6 #1 Thu Nov 1 02:23:35 PST 2001
i686 unknown
galaxy% gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)

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Trac field	Value
Version	5.02
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	ResolvedFixed
Component	Driver
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