Re: build system woes in master

On 22/11/2012 19:38, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:28:24PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:
>>
>> Any thoughts about what might be going on with any of the above?
>
> FWIW, I think that some of your problems probably stem from using an old
> cabal-install compiled against an old Cabal, which assumes that -static
> is the default and so doesn't say "-static -prof" when trying to build
> static profiling libraries.
>
> But you're right that we should fix the prof_dyn way, we should also
> give Cabal a flag to build it.

I think it's important that (a) -prof still works (without needing an 
extra -static) and (b) --enable-library-profiling builds libraries that 
you can use -prof with.  Ian, what's your plan here? To use prof_dyn?

Also, I see that the new Cabal is building both dynamic and static ways 
by default, I wonder whether we should make it just build the dynamic 
way (to save compile-time for people who don't need the static way, 
which should be most people).

Cheers,
	Simon