Linker broken on M2 Mac in ghc-9.8.1-rc1 for me: ld: unknown options: --gc-sections

Summary

ghc hello.hs\
\[1 of 2\] Compiling Main             ( hello.hs, hello.o )\
\[2 of 2\] Linking hello\
ld: unknown options: --gc-sections\
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)\
ghc-9.8.0.20230929: \`gcc' failed in phase \`Linker'. (Exit code: 1)

\\>cat hello.hs

`main = putStrLn "Hello, world!"`

This is the same issue as #21570 (closed) (closed)

Steps to reproduce

see above

What do you expect the reproducer described above to do?

I expect it to compile without errors.

Environment

• GHC version used: ghc-9.8.0.20230929 (ghc 9.8.1-rc1)

Optional:

• Operating System: MacOS Sonoma
• System Architecture: arm

./configure reported

checking for -ld.lld... no\
checking for ld.lld... ld.lld\
checking whether C compiler supports -fuse-ld=lld... yes

\\>echo $PATH\
/Users/avie/.cabal/bin:/usr/<wbr>local/opt/llvm/bin:/usr/local/<wbr>bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/<wbr>local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/<wbr>App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/<wbr>usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.<wbr>apple.security.cryptexd/codex.<wbr>system/bootstrap/usr/local/<wbr>bin:/var/run/com.apple.<wbr>security.cryptexd/codex.<wbr>system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/<wbr>run/com.apple.security.<wbr>cryptexd/codex.system/<wbr>bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/<wbr>bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/<wbr>sbin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/<wbr>texbin

\\> ghc --info

ghc --info\
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 ,("C++ compiler command","g++")\
 ,("C++ compiler flags","--target=arm64-apple-<wbr>darwin ")\
 ,("C compiler link flags","-Wl,-no_fixup_chains")\
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 ,("Haskell CPP command","gcc")\
 ,("Haskell CPP flags","-E -undef -traditional -Wno-invalid-pp-token -Wno-unicode -Wno-trigraphs")\
 ,("ld command","ld.lld")\
 ,("ld flags","")\
 ,("ld supports compact unwind","NO")\
 ,("ld supports filelist","NO")\
 ,("ld supports response files","NO")\
 ,("ld is GNU ld","YES")\
 ,("Merge objects command","ld.lld")\
 ,("Merge objects flags","-r")\
 ,("ar command","ar")\
 ,("ar flags","qcls")\
 ,("ar supports at file","NO")\
 ,("ar supports -L","NO")\
 ,("ranlib command","ranlib")\
 ,("otool command","otool")\
 ,("install_name_tool command","install_name_tool")\
 ,("touch command","touch")\
 ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false")\
 ,("windres command","/bin/false")\
 ,("unlit command","/usr/local/lib/ghc-<wbr>9\.8.0.20230929/lib/bin/unlit")\
 ,("cross compiling","NO")\
 ,("target platform string","aarch64-apple-darwin"<wbr>)\
 ,("target os","OSDarwin")\
 ,("target arch","ArchAArch64")\
 ,("target word size","8")\
 ,("target word big endian","NO")\
 ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","NO")\
 ,("target has .ident directive","YES")\
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 ,("target has libm","YES")\
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 ,("LLVM target","arm64-apple-darwin")\
 ,("LLVM llc command","llc")\
 ,("LLVM opt command","opt")\
 ,("LLVM clang command","clang")\
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 ,("Use interpreter","YES")\
 ,("Support SMP","YES")\
 ,("RTS ways","debug thr thr_debug thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p debug_p")\
 ,("Tables next to code","YES")\
 ,("Leading underscore","YES")\
 ,("Use LibFFI","YES")\
 ,("RTS expects libdw","NO")\
 ,("Project version","9.8.0.20230929")\
 ,("Project Git commit id","<wbr>86c1bdc48a6d4bc059c3fffb5c27d4<wbr>fd69fc81bc")\
 ,("Project Version Int","908")\
 ,("Project Patch Level","020230929")\
 ,("Project Patch Level1","0")\
 ,("Project Patch Level2","20230929")\
 ,("Project Unit Id","ghc-9.8.0.20230929-66a6")\
 ,("Booter version","9.4.4")\
 ,("Stage","2")\
 ,("Build platform","aarch64-apple-<wbr>darwin")\
 ,("Host platform","aarch64-apple-<wbr>darwin")\
 ,("Target platform","aarch64-apple-<wbr>darwin")\
 ,("Have interpreter","YES")\
 ,("Object splitting supported","NO")\
 ,("Have native code generator","YES")\
 ,("target has RTS linker","YES")\
 ,("Target default backend","native code generator")\
 ,("Support dynamic-too","YES")\
 ,("Support parallel --make","YES")\
 ,("Support reexported-modules","YES")\
 ,("Support thinning and renaming package flags","YES")\
 ,("Support Backpack","YES")\
 ,("Requires unified installed package IDs","YES")\
 ,("Uses package keys","YES")\
 ,("Uses unit IDs","YES")\
 ,("GHC Dynamic","YES")\
 ,("GHC Profiled","NO")\
 ,("Debug on","NO")\
 ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/<wbr>ghc-9.8.0.20230929/lib")\
 ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/ghc-9.8.0.<wbr>20230929/lib/package.conf.d")\
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