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3439	Improve the setup for ticky	simonpj	igloo	"Simon Marlow and I came up with the following proposals:
 * Merge the ""ticky"" and ""debug"" builds of the runtime system. This just simplifies the RTS build, and reduces the number of versions.

 * Arrange that ''every'' build of the RTS defines the symbols that are referenced by code compiled with `-ticky`.  That way you won't get link errors if you compile tickified code with a non-debug RTS.

The second point is very important. When testing I often want to compile all the libraries with `-ticky`, but it's very fiddly to ensure that every program compiled against those libraries is linked against the debug/ticky RTS.  I just want those programs to work.  The ones I want to examine closely (ie see the ticky stats) I can certainly link with `-ticky` or `-debug` to get the RTS that does the counting.

None of this is difficult; just an hour or two's work."	merge	closed	high	7.0.1	Compiler	6.10.4	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple		Easy (less than 1 hour)