#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):
No, if we implemented my proposal in comment:16 we would not need the dependency on C library -dev packages anymore. The -dev package would only be a build requirement.
I think maybe we're talking about different things, let me try to clarify. * If you install a Haskell package to be used with GHC, you still need the `-dev` version of any C library dependencies. That's independent of your proposal in comment:16, because we need the -dev libraries when building standalone executables. * If you install a package because it is a runtime dependency of an executable or another library, then you don't need the -dev version of C dependencies. So you could, if you wanted, split compiled Haskell packages into dev and non-dev distributions. * The case you seem to be referring to is somewhere between these two, where you're only using a package in GHCi, or only via the GHC API. In those cases you could avoid needing the `-dev` dependency, but I'm not sure how you would distinguish this kind of dependency. How can you tell that the user isn't going to try to use GHC? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9498#comment:23 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler