#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 trommler): Replying to [comment:23 simonmar]:
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. Is the C library going to be a static (archive) or da dynamic (shared object) library? If it is the latter then I think it would still work with comment:16 and if we pass a linker flag (something along the lines of copy all DT_NEEDED tags for C libraries from the dummy SO into the executable) the performance impact would be small. But in the completely static case you are right, the dev dependency is always required. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9498#comment:24 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler