Re: -optl behavior in ghc-7.8.1

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 11:54 -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Yuras Shumovich wrote:

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ghc-7.6.3 passes additional linker options after all the haskell object files, while ghc-7.8.1 does the opposite.

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Is it intentional change?

Pretty sure it is intentional, because it's necessary for some options. ld options are not in general position independent, and can't be.

Yes, I understand. But how the new behavior is better then the old one?

I want to compile in a number of static libraries. I have the next line

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in my cabal file:

ld-options: ./path/to/libsomething.a

You're abusing ld-options. Use extra-libraries for this; if it doesn't work then you have found another bug and should file it as such.

extra-libraries doesn't work because it links with libsomething.so instead of libsomething.a