7.8.1, template haskell, and dynamic libraries

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 09.02.2014, 14:37 -0600 schrieb Austin Seipp:
> There is one caveat, if I remember correctly: if a package uses
> TemplateHaskell, it must declare it as such in the Cabal file. This is
> because Cabal does not parse the source to detect if TemplateHaskell
> is needed in the dependency graph of the compiled modules. Only GHC
> can do this reliably. If you don't specify TemplateHaskell as an
> extension, Cabal might not do the right thing. This is noted in the
> release notes:
> 
> > Note that Cabal will correctly handle -dynamic-too for you automatically, especially when -XTemplateHaskell is needed - but you *must* tell Cabal you are using the TemplateHaskell extension.

we need -dynamic-too also for everything that a user ever might want to
load in GHCi, right? So doesn’t that already imply that Cabal should and
will build libHS*so files always anyways?

Greetings,
Joachim


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