Thanks for your reply.

There's something in the Fedora packaging guidelines about not packaging static libraries.

There is...

There is also something about it being ok for Haskell packages

in the Haskell Packaging Guidelines we made. :)

Current ghc stable releases only support Linux shared libs on ia32 arch's.

ie all Haskell executables on other archs are statically linked to Haskell libs anyway.

I believe ocaml also links its executables statically to ocaml libs.

I don't think we can drop Haskell static libraries any time soon,

but for ghc-7.8 (Fedora 21) I am thinking to subpackage them

since ghc-pkg no longer screams about missing static libs.

(ghc-7.8 uses dynmically linking internally by default though

which somewhat complicates its use of non-exported libs.)

I don't know how well it would work to link with Haskell libraries statically and others dynamically -- I'm not even sure how to tell ghc to do that.

It works just fine - it is what ghc does by default and has been doing forever. :)

To link dynamically you have to give the -dynamic option to ghc.

As I wrote, afaik other distros do not distribute dynamically linked Hasklell executables.

Anyway my question was more about providing both for some packages in an optimal way.

Jens

$ cat > Main.hs

main = putStrLn "hi"

$ ghc Main

$ ldd Main | grep libHS

$ ghc Main -dynamic

$ ldd Main | grep libHS | wc -l