Lana Black
Hello,
My personal project involves making a port of GHC for an almost bare-bones environment, which doesn't provide runtime linking support. GHC configure script sets `TargetHasRTSLinker` flag, but it seems to be ignored in RTS itself, and the linker is built regardless.
Just to confirm: By "runtime linking" do you mean dynamic linking or support in the RTS's own linker? In general GHC uses "runtime linking" to mean the latter.
Is this a regression, perhaps due to the migration from Makefiles to Hadrian? Or is building RTS without runtime linker no longer supported?
I suspect what you are observing is expected behavior: The linker is built regardless of whether TargetHasRTSLinker is set. This field is really only used by the testsuite driver to skip tests which would require the RTS linker. Cheers, - Ben