#14444: Linker limit on OS X Sierra breaks builds for big projects -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dredozubov | Owner: angerman Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1 (Linking) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: MacOS X | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by aosivitz): Oh, I understand. By default GHC will statically link exes, but you can force it to be dynamic and in that case it will fail. Well, I personally am less concerned about that case because I'm not trying to dynamically link any exes, but I see why you would want both to work equally well. It seems to me like the TH problem (building an extra dynamic lib unnecessarily which happens to cause bad behavior on Mac) is separate from the dynamic exe problem (how can we dynamically link a bunch of libs into an exe on Mac). Is there some implementation reason why those two problems are more tied together than I assume? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14444#comment:17 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler