Re: Help needed: Updating GHC to 8.4.3

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> GHC 8.0 had been patched with
> "ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch" to avoid using
> response files with the linker, because our ld-wrapper doesn’t seem to
> behave right in some edge case that GHC depends on.  I tried porting the
> patch to GHC 8.4.3 by applying this snippet:

I think this patch predates the addition of support for response files
in ld-wrapper.  That support is not entirely faithful (see the FIXME in
ld-wrapper.in), but I think it’s good enough for GHC.

Could you maybe try removing the patch and see if it works better?

HTH,
Ludo’.