[GHC] #14300: FreeBSD 10.3 toolchain is terribly broken

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#14300: FreeBSD 10.3 toolchain is terribly broken
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        Reporter:  bgamari       |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug           |               Status:  closed
        Priority:  normal        |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler      |              Version:  8.2.1
      Resolution:  fixed         |             Keywords:
Operating System:  FreeBSD       |         Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown  |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:  #13974        |  Differential Rev(s):
       Wiki Page:                |
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Comment (by pgj):

 FreeBSD has a very old {{{ld}}} (2.17.50) in the base system (as
 {{{/usr/bin/ld}}}) due to licensing issues.  Newer versions of {{{gcc}}}
 and {{{ld}}} come in GPLv3 flavor, that is what the developers aim to
 avoid as much as possible.  That is why the README indeed recommends to
 install the {{{lang/gcc}}} port that will give you GCC 5.4 nowadays and it
 will also pull the {{{devel/binutils}}} port in, that ships GNU {{{ld}}}
 2.28 (as {{{/usr/local/bin/ld}}}).

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