#6063: GHC's build-time ld-flag checks are problematic ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: parcs | Owner: thoughtpolice Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.4.1 Keywords: | Os: Linux Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: GHC doesn't work at all Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: Related: #4862 | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by thoughtpolice): * owner: => thoughtpolice Comment: I'll take this over since I've had some complaints from friends about it (and have hit it myself in the past.) I'll measure any compile time differences, but I imagine checking if the argument is supported through an extra invocation is negligible compared to the actual linking time. On windows, process creation can be expensive, but we'll only be using ld here anyway so we can short-cut it. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/6063#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler