[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#681067: xmonad: fails to compile config file with gold

[Albin Stjerna]

Package: xmonad
Version: 0.10-4+b2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
Since a recent update, xmonad won't compile its xmonad.hs. The problem seems to be with the Gold linker, because I get the following error:

Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/albin/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
/usr/bin/ld.gold.real: --hash-size=31: unknown option
/usr/bin/ld.gold.real: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Apparently, there's a problem with the --hash-size switch. I guess this is because my Gold version is too old, but any workaround while the newer version of Gold makes its way to the wheezy repositories would be much welcomed.

Thanks in advance,
  Albin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xmonad depends on:
ii  libc6         2.13-33
ii  libffi5       3.0.10-3
ii  libgmp10      2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
ii  libx11-6      2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6      2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxinerama1  2:1.1.2-1
ii  x11-utils     7.7~1

Versions of packages xmonad recommends:
ii  libghc-xmonad-dev  0.10-4+b2
ii  libghc-xmonad-doc  0.10-4
ii  xfonts-base        1:1.0.3

Versions of packages xmonad suggests:
ii  suckless-tools [dmenu]  38-1

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