The exact message is:
$ sudo make install_packages
...
CROSS_COMPILE="" "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" install
"/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.6.1/ghc" "/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.6.1/ghc-pkg"
"strip" "/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.6.1" libraries/base dist-install ''
'/usr/local' '/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.6.1'
'/usr/local/share/doc/g
Well, it does not seem so.
Although around 7.0, there were patches to make gold ld work. But
until now, the configure script is still missing something. For
example, it checks that gold ld is GNU ld. Thus it uses ldscript to
input .o files. But in fact, at least the version I am using, gold ld
does