[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 629145] Review Request: ghc-cmdargs - Haskell command argument parsing

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--- Comment #12 from Peter Robinson  2010-09-22 03:06:50 EDT ---
> > static libraries should be in -static
> > There is a .a file contained but its not clear from the haskell package
> >
> > guidelines regarding this
>
> Agreed this is unfortunate but currently ghc assumes and requires
> the presence of the static library so they can't be subpackaged yet.
> I hope this will change in the future.  (Actually ghc's shared
> library support is still considered somewhat experimental
> but seems to work well - I don't know if any other distro which
> has actually adopted them yet though.)  The Haskell Guidelines
> should state this clearly, though they were written but ghc-6.12
> which introduced shared lib support on linux.

So there's an agreed exception here with the packaging committee? There's only
that and the rpmlint errors blocking this.