id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,difficulty,ghcversion,platform
398,better support for static linking,duncan,,"Generating statically linked binaries on different platforms requires a bit of knowledge about what flags to pass to ghc. It would be nice to just be able to `cabal configure --enable-static-executable` or something and have that pass the extra `-optl-static` and whatever ghc options are required.

If it's not possible to generate static binaries it should make some attempt at explaining why.",enhancement,new,normal,Cabal-1.8,Cabal library,1.2.3.0,normal,,,,easy (<4 hours),6.8.3,