[GHC] #12147: GHC's Linker Should Support Relocation Type 42

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#12147: GHC's Linker Should Support Relocation Type 42
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        Reporter:  gershomb          |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  merge
        Priority:  high              |            Milestone:  8.0.2
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  8.0.1
  (Linker)                           |
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  Phab:D2303
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Comment (by thomasjm):

 I'm another victim: this has been failing for me on Ubuntu 16.04 when
 trying to use IHaskell and IHaskell's display libraries--both the
 cryptonite package and the glib package are triggering this problem. (The
 stack resolver is lts-6.2.)

 I think there are some workarounds I could use where I compile these
 packages with some stack settings like


   ghc-options:
     glib: -opta-Wa,-mrelax-relocations=no

   rebuild-ghc-options: true

   apply-ghc-options: everything

 but I'd really appreciate if there were a 7.10.4 release that fixes this.

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