Bug#807777: ghc: Please adjust linker options for sparc64 (patch supplied)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Package: ghc
Version: 7.10.3-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: debian-sparc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: sparc64

Hello!

I just successfully built the first ghc Debian packages for sparc64 with the
help of bootstrapping ghc on amd64. In order to successfully build ghc on
sparc64, I had to add -optl-Wl,-no-relax to SRC_HC_OPTS as otherwise gcc
would pass "-r" and "--relax" to ld which is not allowed on sparc*.

ghc upstream actually contains a fix for this [1] which, unfortuntely,
applies to sparc but not sparc64 as the latter is not natively supported
by ghc yet and not detected as ArchSPARC. Native sparc64 support could
possibly happen in the future though since ghc already seems to have
NGC support for SPARCv9 according to the source code.

Anyway, please apply the attached patch to make ghc build on sparc64.

Thanks,
Adrian

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