Don Stewart wrote:
on any system where an external libgmp is available, it will be dynamically linked into the generated haskell programs, and in-tree gmp isn't used at all (or compiled, or installed)
So on linux and *bsd, that should be fine. On Mac OS X (as a special case of *bsd), we have that framework thing. It is a real pain, and it also requires the framework on any client machine where you install your ghc-compiled binary. OK for the time being, but it would be really, really good to be able to compile ghc without gmp. This idea of a Mac OS X binary with statically-linked gmp is nice, it is really convenient. But someone needs to completely clarify the license issues in that case, and make it completely clear to all users. What is the situation on Windows? Does the standard GHC binary on Windows have dynamically linked gmp for binaries produced by ghc? Thanks, Yitz