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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help needed: Updating GHC to 8.4.3
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:13:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvnpfir4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idjy3d558v1.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:08:18 +0200")

Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> GHC 8.0 had been patched with
> "ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch" to avoid using
> response files with the linker, because our ld-wrapper doesn’t seem to
> behave right in some edge case that GHC depends on.  I tried porting the
> patch to GHC 8.4.3 by applying this snippet:

I think this patch predates the addition of support for response files
in ld-wrapper.  That support is not entirely faithful (see the FIXME in
ld-wrapper.in), but I think it’s good enough for GHC.

Could you maybe try removing the patch and see if it works better?

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-20 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17 15:08 Help needed: Updating GHC to 8.4.3 Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-20 10:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-08-20 10:36   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-25  5:07     ` Timothy Sample
2018-08-25 19:28       ` Timothy Sample
2018-08-26 14:29         ` Timothy Sample
2018-08-28 16:02           ` Ricardo Wurmus

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