Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

Ian Lynagh ian at well-typed.com
Wed Nov 28 13:30:23 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:34:03PM +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > There are also some policy questions we need to answer about how Cabal
> > will work with a GHC that uses dynamic libraries by default.
> 
> btw, how is it planned to have .so libraries interact with the
> soon-to-be-released cabal-install sandbox feature?

I don't think anything special needs to be done. The RPATHs will still
point to the right DLL if it's in a sandbox.

Please let me know if there's a problem that I'm missing, though!


Thanks
Ian




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