[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
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Comment (by trommler):

 Replying to [comment:23 simonmar]:
 >
 > I think maybe we're talking about different things, let me try to
 clarify.
 >
 > * If you install a Haskell package to be used with GHC, you still need
 the `-dev` version of any C library dependencies.  That's independent of
 your proposal in comment:16, because we need the -dev libraries when
 building standalone executables.
 Is the C library going to be a static (archive) or da dynamic (shared
 object) library?

 If it is the latter then I think it would still work with comment:16 and
 if we pass a linker flag (something along the lines of copy all  DT_NEEDED
 tags for C libraries from the dummy SO into the executable) the
 performance impact would be small.

 But in the completely static case you are right, the dev dependency is
 always required.

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