What does "generic" mean in ~ / .cabal / config?

Question

I think that "shared" will make cabal install faster, right? The default value for sharing is False. Should we use True or False for general?

thanks!

Answer 1

This means "also create dynamically linked (so-called generic) versions of libraries that are installed with cabal install ".

 $ cabal help install | grep shared --enable-shared Enable Shared library --disable-shared Disable Shared library 

By default, only statically linked versions are created. Thus, he will not make cabal install libfoo - on the contrary, libfoo will take more time to build libfoo .