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

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Albin,

Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2012, 13:57 +0200 schrieb 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

it’s not actually problem in xmonad but rather a problem with ghc, see
#673081. I am marking this bug as blocked by the other.

Removing  binutils-gold is probably a work-around for the issue.

Greetings,
Joachim

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