-optl behavior in ghc-7.8.1

[Yuras Shumovich]

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 18:49 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> On 04/10/14 06:39 PM, Yuras Shumovich wrote:
> > ...and other linker options must come after, like in my case. So what?
> > Are there any ticket where people complain about the old behavior? I'm
> > not advocating any specific behavior, I'm just asking why it was
> > changed.
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure if I'm the patch provider, but at least I provided 
> patch which was merged into HEAD (don't have 7.8 branch here so check 
> yourself) which fixes linking of binaries failure on Solaris. Please see 
> b9b94ec82d9125da47c619c69e626120b3e60457
> 
> The core of the change is:
> 
> -            else package_hs_libs ++ extra_libs ++ other_flags
> +            else other_flags ++ package_hs_libs ++ extra_libs

Thank you for pointing to the commit. I hoped it was incidental change,
but now I see the reason.

Thanks,
Yuras

> 
> the patch contains full explanation in comment so see it for more 
> information.
> 
> If this is not what bugs you, then please ignore me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Karel