Not a good answer, I just set

GhcLibWays = v

DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO

DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = NO

at the bottom of the file. This feels a bit hacky because we're overriding GhcLibWays (e.g. we could be dropping the prof way by accident). I think it should be possible to state our desire (i.e. I don't want dyn) somewhere in the file and have that just work. Trying to manually change things like GhcLibWays is error prone.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some times when I play around with GHC I'd like to turn off dynamic
> linking to make GHC compile faster. I'm not sure what the right way
> to do this in build.mk. It's made confusing by the conditional
> statements in that file:
>
> GhcLibWays = $(if $(filter $(DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS),YES),v dyn,v)
>
> This line make me worry that if I don't put
>
> DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
>
> in the right place in build.mk it wont "take".
>
> There's also this one:
>
> ifeq "$(PlatformSupportsSharedLibs)" "YES"
> GhcLibWays += dyn
> endif
>
> Seeing this makes me wonder if
>
> DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
> DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = NO
>
> is enough or if the build system still sniffs out the fact that my
> platform supports dynamic linking.
>
> Could someone please give an authoritative answer to how to turn off
> dynamic linking?

Hi Johan,

did you find the answer?