From 727f447925988371d70638889bab8811161f58de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristen Kozak <grayjay@wordroute.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:23:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add warning about testing Cabal on Windows

---
 HACKING.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/HACKING.md b/HACKING.md
index dc5ef2bcc8..52f229c25e 100644
--- a/HACKING.md
+++ b/HACKING.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ To build and test the `Cabal` library, do:
 
     We will refer to this as `PACKAGEDB`.
 
-5. Configure and build Cabal, and run all tests:
+5. Configure and build Cabal, and run all tests.  (Note that many of the package tests require shared libraries, which are not provided by GHC >= 7.8 on Windows: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8228)
 
     ~~~~
     ./Setup configure --enable-tests --package-db=$PACKAGEDB
-- 
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