[GHC] #13541: Make it easier to use the gold linker

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#13541: Make it easier to use the gold linker
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        Reporter:  bgamari           |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.0.1
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Comment (by angerman):

 Replying to [comment:10 nh2]:
 > Replying to [comment:7 angerman]:
 > > clang doesn't understand `-fuse-ld` (at least not the one that comes
 with the android toolchain, not sure if this statement holds universally)
 >
 > This seems to be Android toolchain specific.
 >
 > Upstream clang suppports `-fuse-ld` since 2014: https://github.com/llvm-
 mirror/clang/commit/bab68c96f15867af6938d9c8f922d59d31351cad

 This likely has been a misreading of the error on my side, as noted in
 https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3351.
 The LD that comes witht he android toolchain is called <toolchain>-ld or
 <toolchain>-ld.gold, and both are
 effectively gold, and there is no tool called just `ld.gold`, there is one
 called `ld`, but that is ld64, and would
 be horribly wrong to use.

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