Dynamic linked version of hakyll library is missing

[Pali]

On Ubuntu package ghc-dynamic provides more dynamic linked haskell libraries, but does not have hakyll.

When I build simple haskell program and link haskell libraries as static it has big size (due to static linking). But If I link haskell libaries as dynamic (-dynamic flag for ghc), then size of ELF binary is more smaller.

Small haskell program which using hakyll library has abou 47MB when program is static linked.

I tried to compile some programs which use hakyll with dynamic linking, but Ubuntu does not have dynamic linked libaries of hakyll. I have installed packages ghc6-dynamic and also libghc-hakyll-dev but I still geting error:

$ ghc -O2 -dynamic hakyll.hs
hakyll.hs:10:8:
    Could not find module `Hakyll'
    Perhaps you haven't installed the "dyn" libraries for package `hakyll-3.2.6.1'?
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for

So please add new package to ubuntu which will contains also dynamic linked version of hakyll. On systems which using package manager is really good idea to use dynamic libaries instead static linking of all runtime.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Anything like this would be done across all Haskell libraries rather than just one, and would be done in Debian. I suspect it may happen for GHC 7.8, since GHCi will start relying on dynamic linking at that point, but I can't say for sure as yet.