[Git][haskell-team/DHG_packages][experimental] ghc: Use bfd instead of gold

[Ilias Tsitsimpis (@iliastsi)]

Ilias Tsitsimpis pushed to branch experimental at Debian Haskell Group / DHG_packages


Commits:
95dd7211 by Ilias Tsitsimpis at 2024-08-26T11:32:04+03:00
ghc: Use bfd instead of gold

The gold linker is abandoned and broken on many Debian platforms.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- p/ghc/debian/changelog
- p/ghc/debian/rules


Changes:

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p/ghc/debian/changelog
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@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ ghc (9.6.6-1~exp4) experimental; urgency=medium
   * Bump required LLVM version to 18
   * Backport upstream patch to fix incorrect use of word-sized types on
     32-bit systems
+  * Use system's default linker (bfd) instead of gold (Closes: #1079099)
 
- -- Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi at debian.org>  Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:58:52 +0300
+ -- Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi at debian.org>  Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:31:53 +0300
 
 ghc (9.6.6-1~exp3) experimental; urgency=medium
 


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p/ghc/debian/rules
=====================================
@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ else
   BUILD_CROSS = NO
 endif
 
+# Use system's default ld (ld.bfd) rather than ld.gold.
+# gold is abandoned and broken on many Debian platforms.
+# See also:
+#  https://bugs.debian.org/1079099
+#  https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/22215
+#  https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/c702696258f
+#  https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25093
+EXTRA_CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --disable-ld-override
+EXTRA_INSTALL_CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --disable-ld-override
+
 # From GHC 8.10 and later, native code generator support for legacy x87
 # floating point coprocessor has been removed. GHC now only support floating
 # point via SSE2. This causes a baseline violation on Debian for i386 where
@@ -66,18 +76,6 @@ ifneq (,$(filter powerpc, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
   EXTRA_HADRIAN_FLAGS += "*.*.ghc.hs.opts += -optc--param -optcggc-min-expand=10 -optc-O3"
 endif
 
-# Use system's default ld (ld.bfd) rather than ld.gold, which fails for
-# haskell-cryptohash-sha256 on mips/mipsel. For more information, see
-# https://bugs.debian.org/901947
-# NOTE: This should probably be removed, and revert back to using ld.gold,
-# once #901947 has been fixed.
-# Do the same for powerpcspe, due to https://bugs.debian.org/904915
-# Do the same for sparc64, due to https://bugs.debian.org/908998
-# See also https://bugs.debian.org/1056636
-ifneq (,$(filter mips mipsel powerpc powerpcspe sparc64, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
-  EXTRA_CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --disable-ld-override
-  EXTRA_INSTALL_CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --disable-ld-override
-endif
 
 ifneq (,$(filter armhf, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
   EXTRA_HADRIAN_FLAGS += "*.*.ghc.hs.opts += -D__ARM_PCS_VFP"



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