On Saturday 14 May 2011 21:06:50, Guy wrote:
On 14/05/2011 21:12, Don Stewart wrote:
When compiled with "split objs" GHC makes it possible for the linker to do dead code stripping. Make sure your GHC has split-objs on.
Thank you, I hadn't realised that the imported library could be built like this. How is this configured with cabal?
In your ~/.cabal/config file (translate the path to Windows, I've no idea where the config goes there), there's a field for that, set split-objs: True And from then on cabal (install) passes the -split-objs flag (or was that --split-objs?) to GHC when installing packages. You'd have to rebuild the packages you already have.
(And do any packages actually do so?)
It's something the user decides, not the package author.