Re: -optl behavior in ghc-7.8.1

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Yuras Shumovich wrote:

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

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

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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?

If it was not clear from what I said that some linker options must come before objects/libraries to have any effect then I am not sure what will clarify it for you.

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

You're abusing ld-options. Use extra-libraries for this; if it doesn't

work

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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

Don't specify it using -l..., specify the .a file just as you were with ld-options. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net