GHCi and C libraries

Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:48:19 +1100


qrczak@knm.org.pl (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) wrote,

> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:32:27 -0800, Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com> pisze:
> 
> > A "make install" of GHCi takes about 10M more than just GHC, because of
> > the extra libraries.  I don't think that's too bad.
> 
> 25M more with profiling.
> 
> Now each external package has to link its files into both *.a and
> *.o files to make them usable with GHCi.

That's really my main worry about this.

Cheers,
Manuel