On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
On 13-10-31 04:26 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
We've had a discussion about DSOs on the arch-haskell mailing list[1] and it made me realise one thing:
--enable-shared will cause the generation of DSOs for libraries, but it won't cause executables to be dynamically linked
Is the only way to cause these executables to be dynamically linked against their dependencies to pass the -dynamic flag to ghc (e.g. via the --ghc-options flag when configuring the package)?
Have you seen --enable-executable-dynamic? It's there since cabal-install 0.14 or earlier. It is also available to Setup.hs since Cabal 1.14 or earlier, which came with GHC 7.4.
Have you done a "cabal install --help | less" lately? Also "cabal configure --help | less".
Ah, of course I ought to have checked the `cabal configure --help`. That flag seems to be what I was looking for indeed. It seems I've only found a shortcoming of the Ghc docs, not a shortcoming of Cabal :) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus If voting could really change things it would be illegal.