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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Jonathan,

Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2012, 10:01 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2012, 22:22 +0100 schrieb Finn Lawler:
> 
> >> 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.
> [...]
> > not sure what we should do here. Should GHC at runtime detect what
> > linker is used, and pass the appropriate flags? Is there a stable path
> > to the GNU ld that can be used no matter whether binutils-gold is
> > installed or not? Is /usr/bin/ld.bfd or /usr/lib/compat-ld/ld the right
> > path to use? Or is it binutils-gold’s responsibility to accept any
> > arguments that GNU ld accepts when it installs itself as /usr/bin/ld?
> 
> In the short term, configuring GHC to use ld.bfd (from the PATH, no
> hardcoded path needed) makes sense.

thanks. I’d like to avoid a ghc upload at this stage of the release
process, so this change will likely not make it into stable. Do you see
this as a major problem? 

Thanks,
Joachim

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