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. Here is my current configuration: {{{ $ uname -a Linux laptener 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 19 06:08:04 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux $ ghc -V The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.1 $ cabal -V cabal-install version 0.8.0 using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library }}} When I first replied to this ticket I was using cabal-install 0.6.2 with Cabal 1.6.0.2 (or 1.6.0.3, I'm not sure). I've upgraded hoping it'll solve
#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 KrzysztofSkrzetnicki): Replying to [comment:3 juhp]: the issue.
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.)
Well, I missed that fact entirely. But I suspect that fixing #600 would solve the issue with cabal-install as well, right? (I have completely no idea how cabal-install works internally, so it's a wild guess.) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/600#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects