[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#673081: binutils-gold breaks ghc linking stage

[Jonathan Nieder]

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:58:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> I think it's a serious bug, but it could be fixed after the release if
>> you want.  Would it be problematic to make an upload that either
>> changes the linker used to ld.bfd or (less pleasant) adds a Breaks
>> against binutils-gold?
>
> Don't you mean that binutils-gold Breaks ghc?

Not really.  I mean that ghc Depends on !binutils-gold because its
configure script is too zealous in adopting features from the linker
it happens to be built against, but there's not any way to express
that in debian/control.

A proper long-term fix is probably to check the linker's functionality
at run time.