Re: Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

On 28 November 2012 08:28, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Open question: What should GHC on Debian do when building binaries, given that all libraries are likely available in both ways – shared or static. Shared means that all locally built binaries (e.g. xmonad!) will suddenly break when the user upgrades its Haskell packages, as the package management is ignorant of unpackaged, locally built programs. I’d feel more comfortable if that could not happen.

Right, I tried patching Fedora's xmonad for a while to use dynamic linking (it made Mod-q almost instant! :-) but finally reverted it not to confuse people linking their .xmonad/ to user libraries, at least until the time ghc/Cabal support dyn by default... Jens