#600: Cabal should use -dynamic linking for executable when package configured --enable-shared ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: juhp | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: Linux | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by juhp): Krzysztof, which OS are you testing on? I admit I have not tested my patch further since ghc-6.12.1 was released. "--ghc-option=-dynamic" works ok on Linux ix86* for bin packages. And --enable-shared works ok on lib packages. There is a conflict for binlib packages when configuring with "--ghc-option=-dynamic --enable-shared -p": the build fails complaining about missing dyn_prof files in ghc's libraries IIRC. This sounds pretty much what you are seeing. I think that cabal needs to support -dynamic itself to workaround this. (Note also this bug was reported against Cabal not cabal-install.) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/600#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects