Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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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