Actually, the situation is pretty bad on Windows, where dynamic-too does not work.
Edward Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Mon Sep 09 16:29:38 -0700 2013: > Erm, I forgot to mention that profiling would only be enabled if > the user asked for it. > > Yes, we will be producing two sets of objects by default. This is what > the -dynamic-too flag is for, no? I suppose you could try to compile > your static executables using -fPIC, but that would negate the performance > considerations why we haven't just switched to dynamic for everything. > > Edward > > Excerpts from Johan Tibell's message of Mon Sep 09 16:15:45 -0700 2013: > > That sounds terrible expensive to do on every `cabal build` and its a > > cost most users won't understand (what was broken before?). > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > If I am building some Haskell executable using 'cabal build', the > > > result should be *statically linked* by default. > > > > > > However, subtly, if I am building a Haskell library, I would like to > > > be able to load the compiled version into GHCi. > > > > > > So it seems to me cabal should produce v, dyn (libs only, not final > > > executable) and p ways by default (but not dyn_p). > > > > > > Edward > > > > > > Excerpts from Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦)'s message of Mon Sep 09 15:37:10 -0700 > > > 2013: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> > Kazu (or someone else), can you please file a ticket on the Cabal bug > > >> > tracker [1] if you think that this a Cabal bug? > > >> > > >> I'm not completely sure yet. > > >> > > >> GHCi 7.8 uses dynamic linking. This is true. > > >> > > >> So, what is a consensus for GHC 7.8 and cabal-install 1.18? Are they > > >> supposed to use dynamic linking? Or, static linking? > > >> > > >> If dynamic linking is used, GHC should provide dynamic libraries for > > >> profiling. > > >> > > >> If static linking is used, cabal-install should stop using dynamic > > >> libraries for profiling. > > >> > > >> And of course, I can make a ticket when I'm convinced. > > >> > > >> P.S. > > >> > > >> Since "doctest" uses GHCi internally, I might misunderstand GHC 7.8 > > >> uses dynamic linking. Anyway, I don't understand what is right yet. > > >> > > >> --Kazu > > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ghc-devs mailing list > > > ghc-d...@haskell.org > > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
