[GHC] #13810: Gold linker fails

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#13810: Gold linker fails
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        Reporter:  ksaric        |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug           |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal        |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler      |              Version:  8.0.1
      Resolution:                |             Keywords:  linker
Operating System:  Linux         |         Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown  |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                |             Blocking:
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Comment (by nh2):

 Replying to [comment:8 bgamari]:
 > beyond just teaching GHC to use `ld` when possible

 Do you mean `gold`?

 > Consequently, when we go to link the executable GHC will add this flag
 to its usual link flags, the latter of which assume that we are using BFD
 ld.

 I don't quite understand this. Isn't the key problem here that the concept
 of the "ld program" and the "ld-options" are unhealthily mixed up?

 It seems to me that if one could explicitly distinguish "I want this
 linker" and "I want these ld-flags", the problem wouldn't exist, because
 then the choice of linker would not be propagated through `ld-options`.

 In other words, isn't the problem here that we're linking through the
 compiler (e.g. `gcc`) instead of the actual linker binary? Because
 otherwise we'd not even be using the `-fuse-ld` flag.

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