Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

[Simon Marlow]

On 05/08/2009 08:40, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Malcolm
> Wallace<malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>> As an aside: are you aware of the problems using LGPL in the context of
>>> GHC statically linking libraries by default (in that they degenerate to
>>> GPL, or require significant extra workaround).
>>
>> Given that GHC has statically linked *all* the binaries it produces against
>> an LGPL library for at least the last 15 years, I think it is a little bit
>> late for everyone else to start worrying about it!
>
> Which library is that?

GMP, and only on Windows.  On Unix systems we normally dynamically link 
to GMP, if it is availble.

Cheers,
	Simon