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Add extraLibDirs to runtime lib search paths of library
Runtime search paths are hard. Here's the current picture to understand why this patch exists: * When linking a shared library, GHC will include in the rpath entries of the shared library all the paths listed in the library dirs section of the installed package info of all packages the shared library depends on. * On darwin, GHC has special logic to inject the library dirs listed in the installed dependent packages info into the rpath section instead of passing the dirs as -rpath flags to the linker. However, only the dirs where used libraries are found are actually injected. The others are ignored. This works around limitations of the darwin loader. * Cabal, in addition, passes directly to the linker (via -optl-Wl,-rpath,...) the library dirs of packages the shared library for the package being built depends on. * In a vanilla cabal installation, this will typically only be the path to the cabal store and the path to the installed GHC's boot libraries store. * When using nix there will a different library dir per installed package. Since these lib dirs are passed directly to the linker as rpaths, we bypass the darwin loader logic and, for very big packages, on darwin, we could end up reaching the load command limit and fail linking. We don't address this situation in this MR. When we specify `extra-lib-dirs` in Cabal, these extra-lib-dirs will be added to the library dirs listed in the installed package info of the library they were specified for. Furthermore, when building a shared library, extra-lib-dirs will be passed as `-L` flags to the linker invocation. However, the same extra-lib-dirs will not be passed as `-rpath` to the linker. The end situation is as follows: 1. The shared library `libA` built for a package `A` will be linked against some libraries `libExtra` found in extra-lib-dirs `extraA`. 2. The RPATH section of `A` will NOT contain `extraA`, because we don't pass -rpath extra-lib-dirs when linking the library, but it will depend on `libExtra`. 3. The installed package info of that package `A` will contain, in the library dirs section, the extra-lib-dirs `extraA` and the path to `libA`. 4. When a package `B` depends on package `A`, it will include in the RPATH section of the shared library `libB` the lib dirs from the installed package info of `A`, i.e. `/path/to/libA` and `extraA`, and depends on `libA` and, transitively, on `libExtra`. The conclusion is: 5. When we load `libB`, we will load `libA`, which is found in `/path/to/libA`, and, transitively, load `libExtra` which is found in `extraA` -- they are both found because both `/path/to/libA` and `extraA` are listed in the RPATH entries. 6. However, if we load `libA` directly we will /NOT/ find `libExtra`, because `extraA` is not included in the RPATH entries. So, ultimately, what this commit fixes, is the failure described in (6), caused by the incorrect behaviour of (2), by specifying `-rpath extra-lib-dirs` when linking the shared library of a package, to include the extra lib dirs in the RPATH entries of that shared library (even though dependents of this library would already get the extra-lib-dirs in their RPATH, the library itself didn't, resulting in cabal#7339 and ghc#19350) Fixes #7339 Fixes ghc#19350
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