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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Joachim!

As per discussion on IRC in #debian-haskell, I have revised my patch
a bit after doing a build test on amd64 which triggered a few warnings
which this new patch eliminates. ghc builds cleanly on amd64 with
my patch applied.

My patch basically is a copy of the patch which added initial platform
support for Alpha, Mipseb and Mipsel upstream [1] minus the part with
the alignment requirement which is not necessary on SPARC and SPARC64
but plus the enforcing of "-no-relax" which is required on SPARC
and SPARC64.

Thus, if you compare my patch with the changes from [1], it should
be obvious that my patch is good and should do the right thing on
sparc64 without the danger of breaking anything else.

Please replace my old patch with the new one. I will also perform
a test build on sparc64 now. However, building on sparc64 is a
tad slower which means we will have to wait several days maybe
so you might as well upload 7.10.3-4 right away with my updated
patch.

Thanks for making me review my changes and test build them!
Adrian

> [1]
https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/9756690fe7aa26aee6955d0b720377d53170c542

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