Right way to turn off dynamic linking in build.mk

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some times when I play around with GHC I'd like to turn off dynamic
> linking to make GHC compile faster. I'm not sure what the right way
> to do this in build.mk. It's made confusing by the conditional
> statements in that file:
>
>     GhcLibWays = $(if $(filter $(DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS),YES),v dyn,v)
>
> This line make me worry that if I don't put
>
>     DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
>
> in the right place in build.mk it wont "take".
>
> There's also this one:
>
>     ifeq "$(PlatformSupportsSharedLibs)" "YES"
>     GhcLibWays += dyn
>     endif
>
> Seeing this makes me wonder if
>
>     DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
>     DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT   = NO
>
> is enough or if the build system still sniffs out the fact that my
> platform supports dynamic linking.
>
> Could someone please give an authoritative answer to how to turn off
> dynamic linking?

Hi Johan,

did you find the answer?