Re: Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec requires -package text.

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 17:52, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> That's exactly what I think.  Currently we require the -package flags
> when linking solely for efficiency reasons: linking would be slow if ld
> was given every lib.a file installed for that compiler.  But perhaps
> that should be the default, which is overridden if you give a bunch of
> -package flags in the link command.  That would make more sense to me.

Tiny nitpick:

It'd be best if you had to explicitly delete all the libraries (using a flag 
with a name like '-fno-packages') and then add them back in than to have 
specifying -package implicitly delete all the packages.

It'd be pretty counterintuitive that adding one package should delete all the 
others.  c.f., the semantics of adding 'import Prelude()' in Haskell.

A bonus is that old makefiles won't break.

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Alastair