On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:57:24 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> By default, GHC statically links all *Haskell* libraries. However, it
> usually does not statically link *external* libraries, as far as I can
> tell. Perhaps there's a switch somewhere to make it do that...

Maybe, I don't know. :)
 
> (And then, of course, we get into the fun of deciding which libraries
> should or should not be statically linked. E.g., apparently statically
> linking glibc is a bad idea.)

Well, glibc is a big library, but if the library you compile against has 
what you need, then it's not really any worse an idea than any other 
library.

Jim

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