[GHC] #14444: Linker limit on OS X Sierra breaks builds for big projects

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#14444: Linker limit on OS X Sierra breaks builds for big projects
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        Reporter:  dredozubov        |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.2.1
  (Linking)                          |
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  MacOS X           |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Comment (by angerman):

 I'll eventually look into the recursive linking part. I've added
 aggressive name mangling to cabal for macOS a while ago, which help
 elevate this issue to a certain part. But we will eventually be unable to
 _always_ stay under the limit.

 So a temporary work around (unless you really have excessive amounts of
 dependencies), might be to use a Cabal build from HEAD.
 I'm not certain how stack handles this and haven't looked into it.

 You are basically looking for any point after
 https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4656 was merged. (3da83a0 was merged
 into haskell/cabal on Aug 22 2017).

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