Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

On 02/12/2014 21:43, Miëtek Bak wrote:

On 2014-12-02, at 21:31, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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whats an example of such a package?

text-icu. https://github.com/bos/text-icu/pull/9

FWIW, I’m in favour of fixing this at the Cabal level. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2207

I'm actually rather surprised we got away without doing this up to now. Why haven't there been more complaints? Cheers, Simon