Lana Black <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > My personal project involves making a port of GHC for an almost bare-bones > environment, which doesn't provide runtime linking support. GHC configure > script sets `TargetHasRTSLinker` flag, but it seems to be ignored in RTS > itself, and the linker is built regardless. > Just to confirm: By "runtime linking" do you mean dynamic linking or support in the RTS's own linker? In general GHC uses "runtime linking" to mean the latter.
> Is this a regression, perhaps due to the migration from Makefiles to Hadrian? > Or is building RTS without runtime linker no longer supported? I suspect what you are observing is expected behavior: The linker is built regardless of whether TargetHasRTSLinker is set. This field is really only used by the testsuite driver to skip tests which would require the RTS linker. Cheers, - Ben
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