whats an example of such a package? On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > It seems that something somewhere in linker-land changed in GHC 7.8 such > that packages that include C components now need to be built with > position-independent code on some platforms. > > This affects a number of my packages. I am not sure whether the correct > fix is to pepper all of these packages (and presumably dozens to hundreds > of other packages on Hackage) with "-fPIC" and issue new releases, or to > instead teach Cabal to do this. It would certainly be vastly less > disruptive to all of the affected package authors to have Cabal > automatically do the right thing here. > > Could someone who's closer to both piles of code please suggest which > approach they believe is more appropriate? > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel > >
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