Right way to turn off dynamic linking in build.mk

[Johan Tibell]

I think that results in libs being built the dyn way as well, which
probably doesn't hurt but takes quite a bit of time.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:07 PM, John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have an authoritative answer, but in the past I set
> DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS and DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT as Johan originally suggested
> and didn't have any issues with the resulting build.
>
> On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 9:00:07 AM Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not a good answer, I just set
>>
>>     GhcLibWays = v
>>     DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
>>     DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT   = NO
>>
>> at the bottom of the file. This feels a bit hacky because we're
>> overriding GhcLibWays (e.g. we could be dropping the prof way by
>> accident). I think it should be possible to state our desire (i.e. I don't
>> want dyn) somewhere in the file and have that just work. Trying to manually
>> change things like GhcLibWays is error prone.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
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