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 -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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