[GHC] #12755: Build from source fails on Ubuntu 16.10: ld: -r and -pie may not be used together

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#12755: Build from source fails on Ubuntu 16.10: ld: -r and -pie may not be used
together
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        Reporter:  SamuelMarks       |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  high              |            Milestone:
       Component:  Build System      |              Version:  8.0.1
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:  x86_64
 Type of failure:  Building GHC      |  (amd64)
  failed                             |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):
       Wiki Page:                    |
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Comment (by hvr):

 This is a known issue and there should be already related tickets filed
 about this in the GHC wiki.

 Also, in https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc I addressed this
 problem by simply calling `configure` a bit differently to make it work
 which basically comes down to

 {{{
 CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2=-fno-PIE \
 CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2=-no-pie \
 CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2=-no-pie \
 ./configure
 }}}

 Did somebody come up with a reliable autoconf test already to detect
 whether `gcc` has `-no-pie` on by default? IIRC you can't rely on CPP for
 this and you really have to perform a compile and analyse the result,
 which is the main reason we haven't implemented it yet...

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