Linking of binaries fails on OpenBSD due to PIE support

OpenBSD provides since 5.3 version IIRC support for position independent executables (PIE) by default. This means GNU C bundled with OpenBSD by default compiles position independent code. GHC does not count with this and generates normal code and while linking linker complains about wrong relocations in linked object code. Example:

/usr/bin/ld: utils/hsc2hs/dist-install/build/Main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `stg_upd_frame_info' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

This of course means that build of GHC itself fails.

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Version	7.11
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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Fix provided in D1027

This is presumably fine, but the discussion at #9007 (closed) is relevant too.

mentioned in commit d03bcfaa

It looks like at this stage I can't disown the bug (trac implementation limitation?). Sorry for that, but please care about merge into 7.10.x if possible. Thanks, Karel

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Merged to ghc-7.10 as 0cfee536.

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Resolution	Unresolved → ResolvedFixed

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