[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.2 release candidate 1

[Boespflug, Mathieu]

BTW, I hadn't spotted that this patch was only in HEAD since the
documentation says:

.. ghc-flag:: -pie
    :shortdesc: Instruct the linker to produce a position-independent
executable.
    :type: dynamic
    :category: linking

    :since: 8.2.1

I guess it was originally slated for that release? Should say at least 8.2.2.
--
Mathieu Boespflug
Founder at http://tweag.io.


On 2 October 2017 at 22:45, Boespflug, Mathieu <m at tweag.io> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13702 break projects like
> sparkle and others, since they crucially rely on PIE, in this case to
> dynamically load executables in the JVM. It looks like you committed a
> fix for this in HEAD. Any chance you could backport this to the GHC
> 8.2 branch?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Mathieu Boespflug
> Founder at http://tweag.io.
>
>
> On 2 October 2017 at 16:32, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
>> Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> writes:
>>>
>>> Ahh, good catch. Perhaps we should revert in this case.
>>>
>> I've reverted this on the ghc-8.2 branch.
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
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