Dynamic Library Support for x86_64/Linux

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:01:41PM +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
> 
> The situation at the moment is
> 
> "./configure --enable-shared" gives you stage2 compiler that makes use
> of the ghc package in form of a shared lib. So it replaces the static
> compiler. With previous incarnations of the build system we had the
> possibility to build a "ghc" binary which was the static compiler, and
> a "ghc_dyn" binary which was the same compiler but linked to a shared
> lib. But now the situation is different, and either "ghc" is produced
> shared or not.
> 
> This makes it difficult to integrate into the regular testsuite, as
> you can't test shared AND static, you can only test shared OR
> static.

So you only want an in-place dynamic ghc, right? i.e. you don't want
"make install" to be able to install two executables ghc and ghc_dyn?
And therefore we can call both executables 'ghc' but put them in
different inplace directories, like we do with the stage1 and stage2
compilers?


Thanks
Ian