[GHC] #11147: Linker errors related to response files change

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#11147: Linker errors related to response files change
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        Reporter:  waern                |                Owner:
            Type:  bug                  |               Status:  infoneeded
        Priority:  normal               |            Milestone:  8.0.1
       Component:  Build System         |              Version:  7.11
      Resolution:                       |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Linux                |         Architecture:  x86
 Type of failure:  Building GHC failed  |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                       |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                       |  Differential Rev(s):
       Wiki Page:                       |
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Changes (by bgamari):

 * status:  new => infoneeded


Comment:

 Can someone distill from the Github issue a concise set of instructions to
 reproduce this issue? I have installed nix but it's totally unclear to me
 how to reproduce this. At the moment I have,

 {{{
 $ cd ~/ghc/ghc
 $ nix-shell -Ahaskell.packages.ghcHEAD.ghc '<nixpkgs>'
 error: Package ‘VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.2’ in ‘/nix/store
 /p1jp78n8mmk5sj9wpz5hf5jk8x8zqcdy-
 nixpkgs-16.03pre71923.3087ef3/nixpkgs/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/default.nix:18’
 is marked as broken, refusing to evaluate.
 For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
   { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
 in configuration.nix to override this.
 For `nix-env` you can add
   { allowBroken = true; }
 to ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix.
 }}}

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