[GHC] #11834: GHC master, not compiling on Archlinux

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#11834: GHC master, not compiling on Archlinux
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        Reporter:  nitrix            |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:
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Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:  x86_64
 Type of failure:  Building GHC      |  (amd64)
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Description changed by nitrix:

@@ -15,0 +15,3 @@
+ This has bitten Go developers recently as well:
+ https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/18359/
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New description:

 /usr/bin/ld: -r and -pie may not be used together

 http://lpaste.net/159726

 It appears on Archlinux, with GCC version 5.3.0, there's an implicit -pie
 flag passed to `ld`. I looked into compiler/main/DriverPipeline.hs at
 joinObjectFiles, it is unconditionally doing "-Wl,-r", thus the error
 above.

 One suggested fix on IRC is to modify getCompilerInfo to know if the
 compiler supports -no-pie, then conditionally add that to flags that are
 used. I tried and got somewhere lost in compiler/main/DynFlags.hs.
 (Completely new to GHC)

 This has bitten Go developers recently as well:
 https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/18359/

 Hopefully someone can figure it out, it seems important for development
 and I really want to get involved :)

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