Kazu, Dynamic should be available with anything, including profiling. This is probably more an artifact of your mk/build.mk setup.
When you look in there, check carefully which BuildFlavour you have set. The relevant variable is GhcLibWays. For example, BuildFlavour=perf will add 'p' which is profiling, and also 'dyn' if the platform supports shared libraries. BuildFlavour=quick however, would not set this. If you have a build tree, you can do: $ make show VALUE=GhcLibWays which should print out a string containing the enabled Ways. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Kazu Yamamoto <k...@iij.ad.jp> wrote: > Hi Austin, > > I would like to ask about profiling and dynamic linking. > > If I understand correctly, GHC 7.8 with cabal-install 1.18.x.x uses > dynamic linking by default (except on FreeBSD). But GHC 7.8 provides a > profile library only for static linking. An example is the base > library: > > libHSbase-4.7.0.0.a > libHSbase-4.7.0.0-ghc7.7.20130907.so* > libHSbase-4.7.0.0_p.a > > Profile libraries for dynamic linking are not provided. So, I got > troubles when I tried to take profile of my programs. I need to > specify "--disable-shared" explicitly to cabal-install. (This sometime > fails if Build-Type: is Custom.) > > Is this intentional? Are there any technical reasons to not provide > dynamic profile libraries? > > --Kazu > >> Friends, >> >> After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the 7.8 >> feature window will essentially start on Monday, the 16th. This is the >> beginning of the week before ICFP. This is a week from tomorrow. >> >> Afterwords, I suspect we will cut the 7.8 branch in early October (my >> notes tentatively say Oct. 9th.) This will give us a few weeks of >> straight bugfixing. >> >> Don't let this scare you too much. We're doing this at the beginning >> of the week so we have time to sort things out. Bug fixes will of >> course continuously be welcome until the 7.8 branch. >> >> However, for pending features, I'd like a status update. Everyone >> mentioned below, please reply to clarify anything: >> >> * Iavor Diatchki and SPJ are working together on the type-nats-simple >> branch. I believe this will hopefully land in time. Iavor, SPJ - can >> you comment here? >> >> * Trevor and Iavor are also working on kinds without data. Any word here? >> >> * Geoffrey is currently moving, but he says the SIMD work and new >> template-haskell work will land by the end of this week, which is >> great. >> >> * Patrick Palka has a few loose ends to tie off for the parallel >> compilation driver. I talked to him today, and after Andreas committed >> his bugfix to base, I believe everything is now working, with the >> deadlocks sorted out. Patrick, can you confirm? We can get this merged >> ASAP if so. >> >> * Pedro and Richard - what's the story on propositional equality, >> etc? This is mentioned on the status page[1] but I'm not sure what >> else needs to be done. I know Pedro committed the work to make manual >> Typeable instances an error, which is great. >> >> * Luite and Edsko will be talking about some final changes to the >> hooks patch, and afterwords it can hopefully be integrated. I'll keep >> up with them this week. >> >> * I am currently working on integrating the Applicative-Monad >> warning, but this requires some upstream patches for the build to >> work. However, we still need to sync several upstream libraries, and >> this will be happening over the next few weeks. Therefore, I may >> commit it, and incrementally fix validation errors as time goes on and >> me and Herbert sync upstreams. >> >> IMO, most of these look to be in good shape, I think. >> >> If you *do not think you'll make it by the 16th*, please let me know. >> We can possibly still land it the week of the 16th, provided I know >> ASAP. But we really really need to know, because many people will be >> gone the following week. >> >> In the following few days, I'm hoping going to finish off everything I >> can in the patch queue, and fix my remaining bugs, and investigate >> Dynamic GHCi in particular. >> >> Again, if you don't think you can make it on the 16th, but still >> within the week, we can of discuss it. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-d...@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
