7.8 branch is created, HEAD is now open, and a note on merges

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Hello Kazu,

..as this is a Cabal issue, this needs to be handled upstream; could you
please file an issue at

  https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/new

and mention there that we need that to be cherry-picked into the `1.18`
branch as well -- as soon as it's in the 1.18 branch, we can update the
GHC source tree to include that fix.

Thanks,
  hvr

On 2014-01-30 at 02:05:39 +0100, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:
> Hi Austin,
>
> It seems to me that the patch for Cabal in ticket 8266 is still missing:
>
> 	https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8266
>
> diff --git a/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs b/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
> index c7ea633..78cdcbb 100644
> --- a/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
> +++ b/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
> @@ -867,11 +867,6 @@ buildOrReplLib forRepl verbosity pkg_descr lbi lib clbi = do
>                ghcOptDynLinkMode        = toFlag GhcDynamicOnly,
>                ghcOptInputFiles         = dynamicObjectFiles,
>                ghcOptOutputFile         = toFlag sharedLibFilePath,
> -              -- For dynamic libs, Mac OS/X needs to know the install location
> -              -- at build time.
> -              ghcOptDylibName          = if buildOS == OSX
> -                                          then toFlag sharedLibInstallPath
> -                                          else mempty,
>                ghcOptPackageName        = toFlag pkgid,
>                ghcOptNoAutoLinkPackages = toFlag True,
>                ghcOptPackageDBs         = withPackageDB lbi,
>
> If Duncan is busy at this moment, can you take over the merge job?