On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:34:15PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Not really. I mean that ghc Depends on !binutils-gold because its > configure script is too zealous in adopting features from the linker > it happens to be built against, but there's not any way to express > that in debian/control.
I don't follow your logic. ghc seems to work just fine with real ld. If you install binutils-gold, suddenly ghc is broken. Installing ghc doesn't break gold; gold has already been broken for years. > A proper long-term fix is probably to check the linker's functionality > at run time. That's an interesting idea. Do any other compilers do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
