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can't build ghc-6.8.0.20071017 under Solaris using a GNU linker

if I have a GNU linker first in my PATH then configure allows the -x option for linking, but then the stage1/ghc-inplace still uses the Solaris linker via gcc and fails:

/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- x
usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s)
        [-64]           enforce a 64-bit link-edit
        [-a]            create an absolute file
        [-b]            do not do special PIC relocations in a.out
        [-B direct | nodirect]
                        establish direct bindings, or inhibit direct binding
                        to, the object being created
        [-B dynamic | static]
                        search for shared libraries|archives
        [-B eliminate]  eliminate unqualified global symbols from the
                        symbol table
        [-B group]      relocate object from within group
        [-B local]      reduce unqualified global symbols to local
        [-B reduce]     process symbol reductions
        [-B symbolic]   bind external references to definitions when creating
                        shared objects
        [-c name]       record configuration file `name'
        [-C]            demangle C++ symbol name diagnostics
        [-d y | n]      operate in dynamic|static mode
        [-D token,...]  print diagnostic messages
        [-e epsym]      use `epsym' as entry point address
        [-f name]       specify library for which this file is an auxiliary
                        filter
        [-F name]       specify library for which this file is a filter
        [-G]            create a shared object
        [-h name]       use `name' as internal shared object identifier
        [-i]            ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting
        [-I name]       use `name' as path of interpreter
        [-l x]          search for libx.so or libx.a
        [-L path]       search for libraries in directory `path'
        [-m]            print memory map
        [-M mapfile]    use processing directives contained in `mapfile'
        [-N string]     create a dynamic dependency for `string'
        [-o outfile]    name the output file `outfile'
        [-p auditlib]   identify audit library to accompany this object
        [-P auditlib]   identify audit library for processing the dependencies
                        of this object
        [-Q y | n]      do|do not place version information in output file
        [-r]            create a relocatable object
        [-R path]       specify a library search path to be used at run time
        [-s]            strip any symbol and debugging information
        [-S supportlib]
                        specify a link-edit support library
        [-t]            do not warn of multiply-defined symbols that have
                        different sizes or alignments
        [-u symname]    create an undefined symbol `symname'
        [-V]            print version information
        [-Y P,dirlist]  use `dirlist' as a default path when searching for
                        libraries
        [-z absexec]    when building an executable absolute symbols
                        referenced in dynamic objects are promoted to
                        the executable
        [-z allextract | defaultextract | weakextract]
                        extract all member files, only members that resolve
                        undefined tor tentative symbols, or allow extraction of
                        archive members to resolvetweak references from
                        archive files
        [-z altexec64]  execute the 64-bit link-editor
        [-z combreloc]  combine multiple relocation sections
        [-z defs]       disallow undefined symbol references
        [-z direct | nodirect]
                        enable|disable direct binding to shared object
                        dependencies
        [-z endfiltee]  marks a filtee such that it will terminate a filters
                        search
        [-z finiarray=function]
                        name of function to be appended to the .finiarray
        [-z groupperm | nogroupperm]
                        enable|disable setting of group permissions
                        on dynamic dependencies
        [-z help ]      print this usage message
        [-z ignore | record]
                        ignore|record unused dynamic dependencies
        [-z initarray=function]
                        name of function to be appended to the .initarray
        [-z initfirst]  mark object to indicate that its .init section should
                        be executed before the .init section of any other
                        objects
        [-z interpose]  dynamic object is to be an `interposer' on direct
                        bindings
        [-z lazyload | nolazyload]
                        enable|disable delayed loading of shared object
                        dependencies
        [-z ld32=arg1,arg2,...]
                        define arguments applicable to the 32-bit class of ld(1)
        [-z ld64=arg1,arg2,...]
                        define arguments applicable to the 64-bit class of ld(1)
        [-z loadfltr]   mark filter as requiring immediate loading of its
                        filtees at runtime
        [-z muldefs]    allow multiply-defined symbols
        [-z nocompstrtab]
                        disable compression of string tables
        [-z nodefs]     allow undefined symbol references
        [-z nodefaultlib]
                        mark object to ignore any default library search path
        [-z nodelete]   mark object as non-deletable
        [-z nodlopen]   mark object as non-dlopen()'able
        [-z nodump]     mark object as non-dldump()'able
        [-z now]        mark object as requiring non-lazy binding
        [-z nopartial]  expand any partially initialized symbols
        [-z noversion]  don't record any version sections
        [-z origin]     mark object as requiring $ORIGIN processing
        [-z preinitarray=function]
                        name of function to be appended to the .preinitarray
        [-z redlocsym]  reduce local syms in .symtab to a minimum
        [-z rescan]     rescan archive list until no further member
                        extraction occurs
        [-z text]       disallow output relocations against text
        [-z textoff]    allow output relocations against text
        [-z textwarn]   warn if there are relocations against text
        [-z verbose]    generate warnings for suspicious processings
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
<<ghc: 152856724 bytes, 17 GCs, 918602/1762740 avg/max bytes residency (2 samples), 19M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.82 MUT (6.75 elapsed), 0.08 GC (0.08 elapsed) :ghc>>
gmake[2]: *** [dist/build/GHC/Base.o] Error 1
-bash-3.1$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-pc-solaris2.10
Configured with: ../gcc-4.2.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/lang -program-suffix=_4.2.2 --enable-64bit --with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/local/bin/gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.2

This is bad since Cabal cannot cope with the solaris linker (see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/98)

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Version 6.8
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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CC Christian.Maeder@dfki.de
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