Marge Bot pushed to branch master at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: bc9ee1cf by Wen Kokke at 2026-04-22T13:00:51-04:00 hadrian: Fix docs to remove static flavour In 638f6548, the static flavour was turned into into the fully_static flavour transformer. However, this commit did not update flavours.md. - - - - - 1 changed file: - hadrian/doc/flavours.md Changes: ===================================== hadrian/doc/flavours.md ===================================== @@ -166,18 +166,6 @@ when compiling the `compiler` library, and `hsGhc` when compiling/linking the GH <td>-O</td> <td>-O</td> </tr> - <tr> - <th>static</td> - <td></td> - <td>-O<br>+RTS<br>-O64M<br>-RTS<br>-fPIC -static</td> - <td>-O<br>+RTS<br>-O64M<br>-RTS<br>-fPIC -static</td> - <td></td> - <td>-O2</td> - <td>-O2</td> - <td>-O2</td> - <td>-O<br>-optl -static</td> - <td>-O2<br>-optl -static</td> - </tr> </table> ## Flavour transformers @@ -335,18 +323,6 @@ The supported transformers are listed below: </tr> </table> -### Static - -The `static` flavour does not strictly follow the groupings in the table -above because it links all the executables statically, not just GHC -itself, and because it passes `-optc -static` when delegating to a C -compiler. It also turns off dynamic linking at runtime by by adding the -`-dynamic-system-linker` cabal flag to the `ghc` package build because -`musl` doesn't allow dynamic linking in executables that were statically -linked against `libc`. Static flags are only added when building in a -non-dynamic _way_. Some of the considerations for a static build aren't -a great fit for the flavour system, so it's a little bit hacky. - ## Ways Libraries and GHC can be built in different _ways_, e.g. with or without profiling View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/bc9ee1cf0392710dd71c7b2869db936c... -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/bc9ee1cf0392710dd71c7b2869db936c... You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.haskell.org.