On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 3:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > I finally figured out what the problem is. > > After realizing that the two-stage build of GHC works without problems, > I realized it can be a configuration issue only and, indeed, it is. > > Looking at /usr/lib/ghc/lib/settings, the default linker is set to gold: > > "C compiler link flags", "-fuse-ld=gold" > > Since gold is broken on powerpc and shouldn't really be used anymore since > it's basically unmaintained upstream, we must use bfd on powerpc by default. > > Editing the file and switching back to bfd fixes the problem for me. > > Now we just need to figure out how to actually set the default linker back > to bfd as it was actually explicitly supposed to happen according to > debian/rules. > > This will most likely also unbreak GHC on m68k.
Good job, Adrian. That's quite a bit of work to track down the issue. Jeff
