haskell/cabal

`executable-dynamic: True` should apply to `build-type: Custom` setup

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#1,720 opened on Mar 10, 2014

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Description

I have a Haskell installation with only shared libraries, and cabal's config contains:

library-vanilla: False
library-profiling: False
shared: True
executable-dynamic: True

This fails for packages with build-type: Custom, because cabal-install tries to link setup against non-existent static libraries.

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Investigate how cabal install determines linker options for the setup executable when build type is Custom, specifically how executable dynamic config flag is applied. Look at the Setup.hs compilation phase and the handling of dynamic linking.
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