Linking vs. shared libs on Unix

[Thomas Pasch]

Hello,

In the windows version of ghc, 
there seems to be the possiblity to compile
the libraries as shared 'dll's. Is the 
same possible for the unix version?

The question is because I think the ghc 
executables are really blown up. A simple
'Hello, world' has 172 kBytes (358k unstripped)
and the hello example of the GTK+ bindings 
is as big as 854 kBytes (2.2 MBytes unstripped),
although it is link dynamically against:

> ldd hello
        libgthread-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 (0x40025000)
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40028000)
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40155000)
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x4018a000)
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x4018d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401b1000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x401b4000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401bc000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401cb000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402ae000)
        libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0x402cc000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402ed000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40400000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)   

Best regards,

Thomas