On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 16:15, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 05.01.2012, 14:14 -0500 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 13:53, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
> wrote:
>         (But I am really wondering why the linker cannot do something
>         that has
>         the same effect as objcopy --prefix-symbols, but on the fly.)
>
> Some of them can; notably the binutils ld, which comes from the same
> source as and uses the same mechanism as objcopy.

they do? I couldn’t any flag in that direction.

Hrm.  I thought it did.  Possibly it requires an ld-script, or I'm confusing it with Solaris ld.

In any case, I am starting to approach the point of "so will Debian allow ghc to remain compatible with non-Linux?", since so far I'm getting the distinct impression that solutions that work on Linux are all that matter.

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