[GHC] #11373: GHC should support static archive creation on all systems

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#11373: GHC should support static archive creation on all systems
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        Reporter:  ezyang            |                Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  low               |            Milestone:
       Component:  Driver            |              Version:  7.11
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Changes (by thomie):

 * component:  Compiler => Driver


Comment:

 That code was added in #8127, commit
 98b0d05de35bd531102d832f3108050549fd781f:

 {{{
 Author: Austin Seipp <aseipp at pobox.com>
 Date:   Wed Aug 28 16:55:42 2013 -0500

     Rework how iOS does linking (#8127)

     iOS has some particular constraints about how applications can be
 built:

      * We must generate a static library (.a) since XCode does the final
        link.
      * We need to carefully give the right set of arguments to libtool in
        the case we're generating an archive.
      * Dynamic linking isn't supported.
      * It can only be done on OS X.

     This patch cleans up all of the above. We add a new flag `-staticlib`
     (only supported on Darwin) that allows us to produce archive files
 using
     libtool, and a -pgmlibtool flag to control which 'libtool' executable
 to
     use.

     This fixes #8127. I believe this is the last piece missing from the
 iOS
     cross compiler.

     Authored-by: Luke Iannini <lukexi at me.com>
     Authored-by: Maxwell Swadling <maxwellswadling at gmail.com>
     Authored-by: Stephen Blackheath <... at blacksapphire.com>
     Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp at pobox.com>
 }}}

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