Building with recent binutils require --no-pie

Fri Nov 4 08:45:30 UTC 2016

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Unfortunately, that is not sufficient. With the three patchs you listed
> and the configure options above, the resulting GHC still fails to build
> the 'magic' due to something going wrong with hsc2hs:

Just to be clear, this is patching the 8.0.1 release.

It seems that the final piece of the puzzle is the cabal 1.24.1.0 release
which is due RealSoonNow!

    https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4080

Erik
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