[GHC] #10912: Support for out of the box static linking

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#10912: Support for out of the box static linking
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        Reporter:  crb002            |                   Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |                  Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |               Milestone:
       Component:  Package system    |                 Version:  7.10.2
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Comment (by crb002):

 Emit static linked binaries, but yes if we wanted to run GHC on AWS Lambda
 we would need to static link GHC itself. I did this with Ruby1.8 for the
 BlueGene/L. Biggest pain was link order.

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