2014-08-04 14:59 GMT+02:00 Mikhail Glushenkov
Hmmm, this isn't very specific, it just says that there are probably bugs, but that's true for almost all code. :-) Are there any concrete issues with --enable-split-objs?
One of the problems is that split-objs is extremely slow, especially on Windows. I had to disable split-objs for OpenGL-related libraries when building the HP installer in the past because of this.
I think it's perfectly fine if the the compilation of the library itself takes ages if it pays off later: You compile the library once, but link against it multiple times. Or do the link times against e.g. OpenGL stuff suffer? My point is: Do we make the right trade-off here? A quick search brought up e.g. https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/issues/169 which seems to be a request to split everything.
Randy also said that libraries built with split-objs don't work well in ghci on Windows x64.
Is there an issue for this?