On 3 September 2013 23:11, Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma@singpolyma.net> wrote:

Somebody claiming to be Jens Petersen wrote:

The libraries in question here are haskeline, terminfo, and xhtml.

Are those libraries needed by GHCI?

libdir/bin/ghc is linked to haskeline and terminfo.

ghc-pkg is also linked to terminfo.

haddock links to xhtml.

Could we just statically link those ones into GHC?

Not really - that is what was done before ghc-7.7 as I was trying to allude to in my mail.

For Fedora it is still an bundled library whether it is statically or dynamically linked.

Jens