Runtime linker

[Lana Black]

On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:18:45 UTC Ben Gamari wrote:
> Just to confirm: By "runtime linking" do you mean dynamic linking or support
> in the RTS's own linker? In general GHC uses "runtime linking" to mean the
> latter.

Indeed, I mean the latter. Specifically, the code in `rts/linker` in the GHC 
tree.

> I suspect what you are observing is expected behavior: The linker is
> built regardless of whether TargetHasRTSLinker is set. This field is
> really only used by the testsuite driver to skip tests which would
> require the RTS linker.

Makes sense. Thank you!