[arch-haskell] Dynamic executables and RPATH

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:21:51AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:32:25PM +0100, Fabien Dubosson wrote:
> > > Would you verify that passing --ghc-options when configuring a package
> > > adds the options to 'ghc-options:' if present in the .cabal file?
> > 
> > With pleasure. I made a «dummy» program to verify that (files here
> > [1]):
> > 
> >   1. A dummy `Main.hs` executable which uses an external library and
> >      also generates GHC warnings.
> >   2. A simple `test-ghc-opts.cabal` file which has a `ghc-options:`
> >      to display warnings
> >   3. A `build.sh` script which configures the program with a
> >      `ghc-options` to remove the [rpath] of dynamic linking.
> > 
> > If both the warnings are displayed and the [rpath] doesn't exist, it
> > means that both ways of giving `ghc-options` are working side by
> > side. It is the case on my computer! But I let you verify my scripts
> > to be sure that I'm doing the test correctly.
> > 
> > [1] https://gist.github.com/StreakyCobra/0067d15fd74ebf8bf5e0
> 
> Excellent, then that is indeed a better route than the one I embarked
> on.

Another proposal here: http://is.gd/EbUJXu-

/M

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