Hi Ludo,
> Hello, > > Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> 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? I did try to build GHC 8.4.3 without any patches first, but this failed (with the same errors and warnings when trying to set up the tests). Only then did I try to port the patch from 8.0.x to 8.4.3. -- Ricardo
