Hi, The problem in https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1611 is with that we have a module (say, A) from which we're only importing a single value, and this module is a part of the cabal-install source tree. It would be nice if the whole contents of A weren't linked with the final executable. So I tried to compile cabal-install with --split-objs, but apparently this doesn't work because in this case the linker's input is A.o instead of A_split_0.o A_split_1.o ... A_split_N.o. And apparently that's why the documentation says that "--split-objs doesn't make sense for executables".
Note that if cabal-install was split into an executable and a library, then this would work. So the question is why --split-objs only works for libraries and whether this behaviour can be fixed. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
