Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

Hi, On 2 December 2014 at 22:06, Bryan O'Sullivan 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.

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.