It seems impossible to use Yesod together with the Darcs library due to a linker problem. I tracked down the problem and need hints to work around it by people familiar with Darcs internals.
When using the darcs library in a Yesod application, I get the following error:
GHCi runtime linker: fatal error: I found a duplicate definition for symbol
sha256_init
whilst processing object file
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/darcs-2.9.5/ghc-7.4.2/libHSdarcs-2.9.5.a
This could be caused by:
* Loading two different object files which export the same symbol
* Specifying the same object file twice on the GHCi command line
* An incorrect `package.conf' entry, causing some object to be
loaded twice.
GHCi cannot safely continue in this situation. Exiting now. Sorry.
It appears to be caused by the darcs and cryptohash libraries exposing the same symbol, as searching through the respective object files reveals:
# for file in `find ~/.cabal/lib/ -name "*.a"`; do (readelf -s $file | grep -i sha256_init) && (echo $file; echo); done
293: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND sha256_init
17: 0000000000000690 94 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 sha256_init
~/.cabal/lib/cryptohash-0.7.5/ghc-7.4.2/libHScryptohash-0.7.5.a
10: 0000000000000290 45 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 sha256_init
~/.cabal/lib/darcs-2.8.2/ghc-7.4.2/libHSdarcs-2.8.2.a
I wrote a test program to confirm that the darcs and cryptohash libraries are in conflict:
import Crypt.SHA256 (sha256sum)
import Crypto.Hash.SHA256 (hash)
import Data.ByteString (empty)
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BS
main :: IO ()
main = do
BS.putStrLn $ hash empty -- cryptohash
putStrLn $ sha256sum empty -- darcs
It fails to compile with a similar error:
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/cryptohash-0.7.5/ghc-7.4.2/libHScryptohash-0.7.5.a(sha256.o): In function `sha256_update': sha256.c:(.text+0x4b0): multiple definition of `sha256_update'
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/darcs-2.8.2/ghc-7.4.2/libHSdarcs-2.8.2.a(sha2.o):sha2.c:(.text+0xf90): first defined here
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/cryptohash-0.7.5/ghc-7.4.2/libHScryptohash-0.7.5.a(sha256.o): In function `sha224_update': sha256.c:(.text+0x640): multiple definition of `sha224_update'
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/darcs-2.8.2/ghc-7.4.2/libHSdarcs-2.8.2.a(sha2.o):sha2.c:(.text+0xbb0): first defined here
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/cryptohash-0.7.5/ghc-7.4.2/libHScryptohash-0.7.5.a(sha256.o): In function `sha256_init': sha256.c:(.text+0x690): multiple definition of `sha256_init'
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/darcs-2.8.2/ghc-7.4.2/libHSdarcs-2.8.2.a(sha2.o):sha2.c (.text+0x290): first defined here
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/cryptohash-0.7.5/ghc-7.4.2/libHScryptohash-0.7.5.a(sha256.o): In function `sha224_init': sha256.c:(.text+0x6f0): multiple definition of `sha224_init'
/home/sebfisch/.cabal/lib/darcs-2.8.2/ghc-7.4.2/libHSdarcs-2.8.2.a(sha2.o):sha2.c (.text+0x620): first defined here
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The cryptohash library is required by yesod-static and cannot easily be avoided when writing a Yesod application. How can I use Yesod and Darcs (as a library) in the same application?
Would it help to delete the duplicate symbols from one library? Both packages access hashing functions via FFI but using different files.
From darcs/Crypt.SHA256:
foreign import ccall unsafe "sha2.h sha256" c_sha256
:: Ptr CChar -> CSize -> Ptr Word8 -> IO ()
From cryptohash/Crypto.Hash.SHA256:
foreign import ccall unsafe "sha256.h sha256_init"
c_sha256_init :: Ptr Ctx -> IO ()
foreign import ccall "sha256.h sha256_update"
c_sha256_update :: Ptr Ctx -> CString -> Word32 -> IO ()
foreign import ccall unsafe "sha256.h sha256_finalize"
c_sha256_finalize :: Ptr Ctx -> CString -> IO ()
Another idea is to rewrite Darcs to not use its own hashing function. How can I reimplement Darcs's SHA256 module to use cryptohash? The two statements in the main function of my test program do not give the same output (tested by commenting out the other statement), so using cryptohash in Darcs does not seem entirely straightforward.
darcs_sha256_init? – Kymric