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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Clint Adams wrote:

> ghc seems to work just fine with real ld.

What exactly is the real ld?  ghc works just fine with many linkers,
but only if you configure and run with the same one.

I'm not sure what the point of this sort of meta-questioning is,
though.  If there's some practical reason for it, could you explain?
Do you mean that GNU gold should be bug-for-bug compatible with
the libbfd-based ld?  (Then I would disagree --- for example, gold
does not support linker scripts, for good reasons.)

Thanks,
Jonathan