[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#673081: binutils-gold breaks ghc linking stage

[Finn Lawler]

Package: ghc
Version: 7.4.1-3
Severity: normal

ghc 7.4.1-3 (unstable) appears to be configured against the ordinary binutils ld.  The ld.gold that binutils-gold 2.22-6 (testing) replaces it with does not accept the `--hash-size' option, resulting in a fatal error at the linking stage.

See also <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-December/097959.html> and follow-up.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IE at euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ghc depends on:
ii  gcc                       4:4.6.3-5      GNU C compiler
ii  libbsd-dev                0.2.0-1        utility functions from BSD systems
ii  libc6                     2.13-32        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libc6-dev                 2.13-32        Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii  libffi-dev                3.0.9-3        Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libffi5                   3.0.9-3        Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libgmp-dev                2:5.0.5+dfsg-1 Multiprecision arithmetic library 
ii  libgmp10                  2:5.0.5+dfsg-1 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-7          shared low-level terminfo library 

ghc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ghc suggests:
ii  ghc-doc                       7.4.1-3    Documentation for the Glasgow Hask
ii  ghc-prof                      7.4.1-3    Profiling libraries for the Glasgo
ii  haskell-doc                   20061127   Assorted Haskell language document
pn  llvm-3.0                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  perl                          5.14.2-9   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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