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 [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
