Ben Gamari authored Aug 01, 2020 and Marge Bot committed Aug 05, 2020

Previously to merge a set of object files we would invoke the linker as
usual, adding -r to the command-line. However, this can result in
non-sensical command-lines which causes lld to balk (#17962).

To avoid this we introduce a new tool setting into GHC, -pgmlm, which is
the linker which we use to merge object files.