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[Simon Marlow]

Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:

> why not use libtool?

Good question.  We avoided it because of the perception that it's complex 
and it wasn't clear that we could use it for everything that we want to do, 
and because of a general dislike for external dependencies.  Clemens 
originally wanted to use it, I think we talked him out of it.

I'm happy to re-evaluate.  I added an empty section on libtool to the wiki 
page, http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SharedLibraries,  please add 
some detail there.

Cheers,
	Simon