[GHC] #15396: -staticlib is broken on GHC 8.4.3 on Linux under certain conditions

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#15396: -staticlib is broken on GHC 8.4.3 on Linux under certain conditions
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        Reporter:  RyanGlScott       |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  patch
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.6.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.4.3
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Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:
 Type of failure:  Compile-time      |  Unknown/Multiple
  crash or panic                     |            Test Case:
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Comment (by RyanGlScott):

 Thanks for the quick work, angerman! I just tried this patch out on my
 Ubuntu 14.04 machine, and it appears to work quite beautifully. The
 original program in this ticket no longer panics, and it seems to scale up
 to building a larger package (in my case, `th-absraction`, where I first
 noticed this bug) as well.

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