Hi, I found that -optl behavior was changed in ghc-7.8.1 ghc-7.6.3 passes additional linker options after all the haskell object files, while ghc-7.8.1 does the opposite. $ /opt/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc --make main.hs -optl=hello -v ... '/usr/bin/gcc' '-fno-stack-protector' '-Wl,--hash-size=31' '-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads' '-o' 'main' 'main.o' 'hello' ... ... $ /opt/ghc-7.8.1/bin/ghc --make main.hs -optl=hello -v ... /usr/bin/gcc -fno-stack-protector -DTABLES_NEXT_TO_CODE hello -o main main.o ... ... Is it intentional change? 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 It works ok on linux and mac os with ghc-7.6.3, but with ghc-7.8.1 I get undefined references for symbols from the libsomething.a Thanks, Yuras