Re: [Hackage] #791: Large libraries not installable on OS X

On 28 March 2011 09:36, Simon Marlow wrote:

the root cause is a size limitation in the OS X linker triggered when libraries get particularly large.  We worked around it (actually Ian did) in GHC by adding support to the GHCi linker to load .a files.

What's still missing (I presume) is something in Cabal to treat this error as non-fatal, and back off to using .a files instead.  Or perhaps using .a files should be the default.

Except that I can't actually get the archive loading stuff to work: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4901 Cheers, Max