I've merged the patches into the 1.20 branch. Look forward to a patch release this weekend.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> wrote: > Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >> 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... > >> I am not sure whether the correct fix is to pepper… > >> packages... with "-fPIC"... or to instead teach Cabal > >> to do this. > > Aha! Thanks for this explanation of what I have been > suffering from. > > Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > > I've now fixed this issue in Cabal HEAD and also pushed the fix to > > 1.20 and 1.18 branches. 1.20 and 1.18 point releases should be out > > soon. > > Thanks a million for the speedy response to this > serious issue! > > I can't wait for the point releases. I'll go with HEAD on one > of the branches for now. > > -Yitz > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-d...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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