[GHC] #9498: GHC links against unversioned .so files

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#9498: GHC links against unversioned .so files
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        Reporter:  Kritzefitz        |                Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  7.6.3
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      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  Debian
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  Other             |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:  10458             |             Blocking:  9237
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):
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Comment (by trommler):

 Replying to [comment:21 simonmar]:
 > > OK. So the in the dynamic case GHCi SHOULD NOT (MUST NOT?) require the
 presence of the development versions of C libraries when using an
 installed Haskell package. This is currently not the case.
 >
 > I think we could make it so that GHCi, if using dynamic libraries,
 doesn't require the `-dev` version of C library dependencies, but what's
 the gain from doing that?  GHC would still require it when not using
 `-dynamic`, so you wouldn't be able to omit the dependency on `-dev` in
 the distro packages, for example.
 No, if we implemented my proposal in comment:16 we would not need the
 dependency on C library `-dev` packages anymore. The `-dev` package would
 only be a build requirement.

 This makes a difference on openSUSE's build service where we build each
 package in a separate virtual machine and install only packages that are
 actually needed for the current build. So when we __use__ the such a
 package in another build we would not have to install the C `-dev`
 packages and some of those can be fairly large.

 Moreover, we could get rid of the code chasing C libraries in `Linker.hs`
 and remove the code that parses linker scripts in `rts/Linker.c`. #9237
 fails because the parsing of linker scripts is incomplete. #10046 might be
 an issue with linker scripts, too.

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