Re: Compiling on OpenBSD-current

Reid Barton writes:

https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2673 is responsible. It adds CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0 to $1_$2_$3_ALL_LD_OPTS, which is documented as "Options for passing to plain ld", which is okay. But just below that the same variable $1_$2_$3_ALL_LD_OPTS is added (with -optl prefixes attached) to $1_$2_$3_GHC_LD_OPTS ("Options for passing to GHC when we use it for linking"), which is wrong because GHC uses gcc to do the link, not ld.

Great catch Reid and thanks for the report Adam! I have setup an OpenBSD VM and have reproduced the issue. Following Reid's logic I have proposed D2776 as a fix. Cheers, - Ben