[GHC] #12460: Solaris linker does not recognize option --gc-sections

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#12460: Solaris linker does not recognize option --gc-sections
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        Reporter:  herzen            |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.0.1
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Operating System:  Solaris           |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  Other             |            Test Case:
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Comment (by herzen):

 Replying to [comment:4 bgamari]:
 > herzen, where does your `ld` come from? Presumably it's not a gnu ld

 Oops, I didn't know about "ghc --info". Yes, it turns out that the ld that
 was being used was gnu ld. When I change that to Solaris's ld
 (/usr/bin/ld), the behavior I reported as a bug goes away.

 My mistake was to assume that the option --with-ld passed to ./configure
 has no effect, because I was dealing with a prebuilt binary of ghc, as
 opposed to building it myself. I was packaging the prebuilt binary using
 Solaris's build system called pkgbuild, which is derived from rpmbuild.
 The way we use that build system is by having a PATH in which /usr/gnu/bin
 is in front of /usr/bin; that is why gnu ld was getting picked up instead
 of Solaris ld. The spec file I was working with, which was written by
 someone else and actually built ghc, supplied --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld to
 ./configure, but I deleted that, because I didn't think it made a
 difference for what I was doing, as I said.

 It was sloppy of me to file a bug report instead of making sure that
 Solaris ld was being used, as I had assumed.

 I could paste what "ghc --info" produces, but I don't think there's any
 point now.

 '''kgardas''' noted above that he makes his builds on Solaris 11.2. I will
 go on investigating whether I run into problems with his builds on 11.3.
 (I have set up a Solaris 11.2 system, in case I need to compare what
 happens between the two Solaris releases.)

 Thank you very much for your suggestion. I should have thought of that
 myself.

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