-package-name

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-10-08 03:04, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

>Definitely not.  

Definitely not worthwhile? Should I be using "-package-name foo" when 
compiling for my package foo?

>Packages are the unit of distribution, and the unit of
>library archive, in GHC.
>If you import a module Foo, GHC has to figure out which libBaz.a to
>link.  

I assumed that GHC linked to all libraries mentioned in all those 
packages specified with "-package".

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA