On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Yuras Shumovich <shumovichy@gmail.com> wrote:
ghc-7.6.3 passes additional linker options after all the haskell object
files, while ghc-7.8.1 does the opposite.
(...) 
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.

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

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