Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

[Simon Marlow]

On 02/12/2014 21:43, Miëtek Bak wrote:
> On 2014-12-02, at 21:31, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> whats an example of such a package?
>
>
> text-icu.
> https://github.com/bos/text-icu/pull/9
>
> FWIW, I’m in favour of fixing this at the Cabal level.
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2207

I'm actually rather surprised we got away without doing this up to now. 
  Why haven't there been more complaints?

Cheers,
Simon