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Emphasize ghcup and discourage use of system GHCs.
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June 17, 2019 13:34
In #109, we encountered Arch users whose build failed because Arch installs a GHC configured to use dynamic linking by default, and GHC is relatively reluctant to use dynamic linking (and sensibly, too, given that ABIs vary between releases of GHC). Though Arch users should be able to work around this problem with careful use of `new-configure` flags, I submit that we should strongly encourage people to use sandboxed, statically-linked GHCs, rather than contort our code to account for questionable decisions on the part of the OS.
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In #109, we encountered Arch users whose build failed because Arch
installs a GHC configured to use dynamic linking by default, and GHC
is relatively reluctant to use dynamic linking (and sensibly, too,
given that ABIs vary between releases of GHC). Though Arch users
should be able to work around this problem with careful use of
new-configureflags, I submit that we should strongly encouragepeople to use sandboxed, statically-linked GHCs, rather than contort
our code to account for questionable decisions on the part of the OS.