#12078: ghc-boot-th package reveals issue with build system's treatment of transitive dependencies -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The `ghc-boot-th` introduced in the resolution of #12052 seems to have uncovered a bug in the build system's treatment of transitive dependencies. Namely, it seems to be possible for the build system to attempt to link `ghc-pkg` before `libghc-boot-th` has been produced. This is odd since `ghc-pkg` has a dependency on `ghc-boot`, which in turn has a dependency on `ghc-boot-th`. In the interest of moving the 8.0.1 release along I'm going to work around this for the time being by adding -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12078 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler