[GHC] #4829: build does not respect --with-gcc option

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#4829: build does not respect --with-gcc option
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    Reporter:  gwright           |        Owner:                     
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new                
    Priority:  normal            |    Milestone:                     
   Component:  Build System      |      Version:  7.0.1              
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:                     
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:                     
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:                     
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  Building GHC failed
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Comment(by simonmar):

 We should fix `--with-gcc`.  It can't be entirely broken, because we use
 the same mechanisms on Windows to use the inplace mingw gcc, and I'm
 fairly sure at least on some of my machines I don't have mingw installed
 in the usual place.

 Using `SRC_HC_OPTS` is probably not the right thing, because those options
 will be passed to the bootstrap compiler too.  That would normally be a
 strange thing to do, because the bootstrap compiler is supposed to
 generate working executables by itself, with no special options.

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