-optl behavior in ghc-7.8.1

[Yuras Shumovich]

Hi,

I found that -optl behavior was changed in ghc-7.8.1

ghc-7.6.3 passes additional linker options after all the haskell object
files, while ghc-7.8.1 does the opposite.

$ /opt/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc --make main.hs -optl=hello -v
...
'/usr/bin/gcc' '-fno-stack-protector' '-Wl,--hash-size=31' '-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads' '-o' 'main' 'main.o' 'hello' ...
...

$ /opt/ghc-7.8.1/bin/ghc --make main.hs -optl=hello -v
...
/usr/bin/gcc -fno-stack-protector -DTABLES_NEXT_TO_CODE hello -o main main.o ...
...

Is it intentional change?

I want to compile in a number of static libraries. I have the next line
in my cabal file:

    ld-options:  ./path/to/libsomething.a

It works ok on linux and mac os with ghc-7.6.3, but with ghc-7.8.1 I get
undefined references for symbols from the libsomething.a

Thanks,
Yuras