Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi,

On 2 December 2014 at 22:06, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> It seems that something somewhere in linker-land changed in GHC 7.8 such
> that packages that include C components now need to be built with
> position-independent code on some platforms.

I've now fixed this issue in Cabal HEAD and also pushed the fix to
1.20 and 1.18 branches. 1.20 and 1.18 point releases should be out
soon.