[xmonad] xmonad recompile error

[Steffen Schuldenzucker]

On 03/17/2012 02:19 AM, Qi Qi wrote:
> When I recompile xmonad.hs by running xmonad --recompile, it gets this
> error:
>
> Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file:
> /home/qi/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
> /usr/bin/ld: --hash-size=31: unknown option
> /usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Does anyone have an idea about it? xmonad's version is 0.10 and ghc
> version is 7.4.1. The xmonad and its library were installed through
> aptitude.

Might be this issue:

http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/GHC-7-4-and-binutils-gold-td5103972.html

(in which case you wouldn't be able to build /any/ haskell program)
Looks like ghc only works with GNU binutils.

-- Steffen