[Haskell-cafe] downloading GHC

[Ketil Malde]

Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:

> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually.

Speaking about which - this is made a lot more difficult than it need be
due to the way libc doesn't work with statically linked executables.
Basically, it seems to manually load hardwired dynamic libraries for
various functionality that you typically *don't* want in your compiler
(nsswitch and whatnot).

Perhaps there's a stripped down libc that ghc could link with that
avoids this?  Or some other solution to this.

-k
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