OK. So the in the dynamic case GHCi SHOULD NOT (MUST NOT?) require the
#9498: GHC links against unversioned .so files -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Kritzefitz | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 (Linking) | Resolution: | Keywords: Debian Operating System: Linux | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: Other | Test Case: Blocked By: 10458 | Blocking: 9237 Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonmar): presence of the development versions of C libraries when using an installed Haskell package. This is currently not the case. I think we could make it so that GHCi, if using dynamic libraries, doesn't require the `-dev` version of C library dependencies, but what's the gain from doing that? GHC would still require it when not using `-dynamic`, so you wouldn't be able to omit the dependency on `-dev` in the distro packages, for example. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9498#comment:21 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler