[GHC] #8266: Dynamic linking on Mac

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#8266: Dynamic linking on Mac
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        Reporter:  kazu-yamamoto            |            Owner:
            Type:  bug                      |           Status:  patch
        Priority:  highest                  |        Milestone:  7.8.1
       Component:  Build System             |          Version:  7.7
      Resolution:                           |         Keywords:
Operating System:  MacOS X                  |     Architecture:
 Type of failure:  GHC doesn't work at all  |  Unknown/Multiple
       Test Case:                           |       Difficulty:  Unknown
        Blocking:                           |       Blocked By:
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Comment (by duncan):

 I have to say this makes me very nervous. Cabal does not currently support
 relocatable packages at all, and a little patch like this is not enough to
 make it do so. There were at the time good reasons to specify the final
 install location and so we will need to see if those reasons are no longer
 valid (e.g. OSX linker features have improved and no longer need to
 support older OSX releases).

 Am I correct in thinking that this only affects people using ghc inplace
 in the build tree?

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