[GHC] #14261: ghc stopped recognizing some arm triplets that used to work: Failed to lookup the datalayout for armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi; available targets:

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#14261: ghc stopped recognizing some arm triplets that used to work: Failed to
lookup the datalayout for armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi; available
targets:
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        Reporter:  slyfox            |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.3
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
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Comment (by slyfox):

 It looks like armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabi still does not compile current
 ghc-HEAD as a shared library:

 {{{
 "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -this-unit-id rts -shared -dynamic -dynload
 deploy -no-auto-link-packages -Lrts/dist/build -lffi -optl-Wl,-rpath
 -optl-Wl,'$ORIGIN' ...    -o rts/dist/build/libHSrts_thr-
 ghc8.3.20171017.so

 /usr/libexec/gcc/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabi/ld: error: rts/dist/build
 /libHSrts-ghc8.3.20171017.so uses VFP register arguments,
 rts/dist/build/StgStartup.dyn_o does not
 /usr/libexec/gcc/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabi/ld: failed to merge target
 specific data of file rts/dist/build/StgStartup.dyn_o
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14261#comment:5>
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