7.8 Release Update

[Edward Z. Yang]

If I am building some Haskell executable using 'cabal build', the
result should be *statically linked* by default.

However, subtly, if I am building a Haskell library, I would like to
be able to load the compiled version into GHCi.

So it seems to me cabal should produce v, dyn (libs only, not final
executable) and p ways by default (but not dyn_p).

Edward

Excerpts from Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦)'s message of Mon Sep 09 15:37:10 -0700 2013:
> Hi,
> 
> > Kazu (or someone else), can you please file a ticket on the Cabal bug
> > tracker [1] if you think that this a Cabal bug?
> 
> I'm not completely sure yet.
> 
> GHCi 7.8 uses dynamic linking. This is true.
> 
> So, what is a consensus for GHC 7.8 and cabal-install 1.18? Are they
> supposed to use dynamic linking? Or, static linking?
> 
> If dynamic linking is used, GHC should provide dynamic libraries for
> profiling.
> 
> If static linking is used, cabal-install should stop using dynamic
> libraries for profiling.
> 
> And of course, I can make a ticket when I'm convinced.
> 
> P.S.
> 
> Since "doctest" uses GHCi internally, I might misunderstand GHC 7.8
> uses dynamic linking. Anyway, I don't understand what is right yet.
> 
> --Kazu
>