sheaf authored Sep 16, 2022 and Marge Bot committed Sep 20, 2022

We now always merge .a archives when ar supports -L.
This change is necessary in order to bootstrap GHC using GHC 9.4
on Windows, as nested archives aren't supported.
Not doing so triggered bug #21990 when trying to use the Win32
package, with errors such as:

  Not a x86_64 PE+ file.
  Unknown COFF 4 type in getHeaderInfo.

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: Win32zm2zi12zi0zi0_SystemziWin32ziConsoleziCtrlHandler_withConsoleCtrlHandler1_info

We have to be careful about which ar is meant: in stage 0, the check
should be done on the system ar (system-ar in system.config).