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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
Subject: bug#25882: gcc-wrapper doesn't handle response files
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 17:58:02 +0100
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gcc-wrapper doesn't handle compiler/linker flags passed through
response files.

One package which recently started using such files is GHC (I believe
since 7.10.3).  For this reason we currently need to patch it.
However, the problem is with our tool chain wrapper and not with GHC
itself.

See discussion at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01981.html