Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

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've actually seen this same problem when building GHC 7.8.4rc1 from
source, but I assumed it was some problem with my development
environment given that this presumably works for others.

Ganesh