[Hackage] #791: Large libraries not installable on OS X

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#791: Large libraries not installable on OS X
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  Reporter:  batterseapower  |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect          |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  high            |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library   |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  normal          |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown         |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:  Mac OS          |  
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Comment(by duncan):

 Current decision of ghc devs is not to disable GHCi .o libs yet because of
 possible bugs in loading the .a archives.

 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4901

 When we do change it, we can use this patch:
 {{{
 hunk ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs 542
 -      ifGHCiLib = when (withGHCiLib lbi && withVanillaLib lbi)
 +      ifGHCiLib = when (withGHCiLib lbi && withVanillaLib lbi
 +                           -- As of GHC 7, GHCi can load .a libs, so the
 .o
 +                           -- libs are not necessary. However this only
 works
 +                           -- correctly in later releases of the ghc-7.x
 +                        && compilerVersion comp < Version [7,0,unknown]
 [])
 }}}

 Obviously, we'll have to wait to know just which ghc-7.x version it does
 work in.

 In the meantime, the workaround for affected packages is to use the flag
 `--disable-library-for-ghci`.

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