[GHC] #3345: Support reading .a files in GHCi to reclaim some disk space

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#3345: Support reading .a files in GHCi to reclaim some disk space
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  Reporter:  batterseapower   |          Owner:                  
      Type:  feature request  |         Status:  closed          
  Priority:  high             |      Milestone:  7.4.1           
 Component:  Compiler         |        Version:  6.10.2          
Resolution:  fixed            |       Keywords:                  
  Testcase:                   |      Blockedby:                  
Difficulty:  Unknown          |             Os:  Unknown/Multiple
  Blocking:                   |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  None/Unknown     |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 I believe this is done.  We don't build or ship the GHCi library for the
 GHC package, and GHC falls back to using the `.a` file whenever it can't
 find a `.o` file for a package.  It should be safe to always use
 `--disable-library-for-ghci` with Cabal (but perhaps a little slower to
 load the package into GHCi).

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3345#comment:7>
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