12 Aug
2020
12 Aug
'20
12:24 p.m.
On 2020-08-12 10:15 a.m., Volker Wysk wrote:
But it sounds quite complicated. What I have in mind isn't worth the trouble. I just wanted to have a statically linked version for inclusion in my backup and in my maintenance USB stick.
I have an exe built by GHC in January 2014 (that's like GHC 7.6), and it is still running just fine on the latest Ubuntu. (In fact I have a daily cron job that runs it.) This is a data point for how long GHC default linking can last IRL. Historically my recollection of the only one breakage event in this regard was a libgmp version bump. And that was a bygone era, clearly before my vintage 2014 exe.