[arch-haskell] Fwd: gitit status update and why are deps needed for binaries

[Magnus Therning]

On 15 April 2015 at 12:57, Fabien Dubosson <fabien.dubosson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The last time I looked at using the shared libs there were issues with
>> rpath, basically ghc put in a search path reflecting the build dir and
>> not the install-libdir.  This was probably in the 7.6 times though.
>> One would hope this has improved since.  The Nix guys did have a
>> solution to this, and IIRC it involved rewriting the rpath after
>> linking.
>
> A more or less elegant solution to the rpath problem was found in a
> previous thread [1]: Using GHC `-dynload=deploy' flag [3] and a
> `/etc/ld.so.conf.d/haskell.conf' file which specify the location of the
> shared libraries, e.g. `/usr/lib/ghc-7.6.3/sharedg'. Details in [2].
>
> This solution was working well for most of the package, I remember being
> able to build pandoc with shared libraries, but sadly not for gtk,
> which has a kind of bootstrapping method that was not working with
> `-dynload=deploy' flag.
>
> It was with GHC 7.6, but as show in [3] the option is still present in
> latest GHC. Maybe it is worth another try, gtk could have changed! Not
> sure to have the time, but if yes I'll try it again.

Ah, yes, that's right, it worked even better than I remembered... and
gtk was the culprit that threw a spanner in the works.  It might be
worth a try now, no matter where the issue of package splitting goes.

/M

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