RE: Fail to compile 5.04.3 on Solaris

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
> > > No. And bootstrapping with 5.04.3 also gave a 
> segmentation fault. I've
> > > attached a printout of what happens when I restart the
> > > compilation with
> > > EXTRA_HC_OPTS=-v. As before, Handle compiles fine when I 
> restart the
> > > compilation.
> >
> > Ah, it actually looks like the linker crashed.  On Sun 
> boxes, I usually
> > find that using the GNU linker gives much better results: 
> it's orders of
> > magnitude faster, for one thing.
> >
> Ah, yes. I've had problems with the linker before. It would 
> be REALLY nice
> if configure could find the GNU linker instead. Or it should 
> at least be
> possible to specify one's own linker a la --with-ln=<linker>. 
> Could you
> make this happen? Puhlease?

For a GHC build, you can add 'LD = gld' to build.mk.  But GHC uses gcc
for linking normal programs, so you probably also want to rebuild gcc
with support for using the GNU linker.

Cheers,
        Simon