#10671: inplace/bin/ghc-stage1 doesn't respect --with-ld override -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mfox | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 7.10.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by rwbarton): It's used by cabal sometimes, I think it's when linking a static Haskell library. That is, cabal parses the output of `ghc --info` to determine what linker it should invoke. I don't know whether ghc ever directly invokes the linker itself. (The fact that ghc uses gcc and not ld for the link step is a bit confusing, and I'm not sure whether it is documented anywhere. For example it means that `-optl` needs to take gcc options, which are not always the same as ld options. The description of `-optl` in the man page is just "pass option to the linker".) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10671#comment:7 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler