Carter Schonwald wrote

> Yes.  (And thence ghc itself is then invoked with dynamic or dynamic-too)
>

>> The docs for 7.8.1 say "Template Haskell must now load dynamic object
>> files,
>> not static ones". Does this mean that, if I'm using Template Haskell,
>> every
>> package which the templates depend on have to be built with
>> --enable-shared?

Perhaps there should be a clear warning about this? If I've understood
correctly, anything using Template Haskell will break when upgrading to 7.8,
until all the dependencies are reinstalled with  --enable-shared.