GHC 6.12.2 on Mac OS X from GHC-6.12.2-i386.pkg fails with "Undefined symbols: "_iconv_close", referenced from: _hs_iconv_close in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o) ..."

With

$ uname -a
Darwin thorkil-naurs-intel-mac-mini.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.2
$

installed from http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.2/GHC-6.12.2-i386.pkg:

$ cat t1.hs 
import System.IO
main
  = putStrLn "Hello GHC-6.12.2 2010-May-13 13.30"
$ ghc --make t1.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( t1.hs, t1.o )
Linking t1 ...
Undefined symbols:
  "_iconv_close", referenced from:
      _hs_iconv_close in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o)
  "_iconv", referenced from:
      _hs_iconv in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o)
  "_iconv_open", referenced from:
      _hs_iconv_open in libHSbase-4.2.0.1.a(iconv.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
$ 

Looking at the installed libiconv:

$ nm /opt/local/lib/libiconv.a | grep iconv
/opt/local/lib/libiconv.a(iconv.o):
00018c60 D __libiconv_version
00018920 T _iconv_canonicalize
00015f20 T _libiconv
00015f80 T _libiconv_close
00017930 T _libiconv_open
00018150 T _libiconv_open_into
00015fa0 T _libiconvctl
000161e0 T _libiconvlist
/opt/local/lib/libiconv.a(localcharset.o):
/opt/local/lib/libiconv.a(relocatable.o):
000000f0 T _libiconv_relocate
00000000 T _libiconv_set_relocation_prefix
$ 

Further, in /opt/local/include/iconv.h:

#ifndef LIBICONV_PLUG
#define iconv_open libiconv_open
#endif
extern iconv_t iconv_open (const char* tocode, const char* fromcode);

So there is some trickery going on with respect to the names of functions from libiconv, but it is not clear to me how to resolve this.

Best regards Thorkil

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.12.2
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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