extra-libraries, hs-libraries, libHSbase_cbits and dynamic linking

[Simon Marlow]

On 03 March 2005 20:41, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:

> I've run into yet another (non-critical) build system problem related
> to dynamic linking.
> 
> Libraries that are listed in "hs-libraries" get different versions
> according to the current way, while libraries in extra-libraries
> don't. The library libHSbase_cbits is in extra_libraries because it's
> written entirely in C, so having a separate profiling version is not
> necessary. However, it _does_ make sense to have a separate
> libHSbase_dyn.[dylib|so]. It would have to be in hs-libraries for that
> to work.

Do you mean libHSbase_cbits_dyn.[dylib|so]?  Why doesn't that work?
(sorry for being a bit stupid, I haven't looked at how the dynamic
linking stuff works yet).

Cheers,
	Simon