[GNU gold] ld: error: cannot find [...]/Types__1.o

/usr/bin/ld is gold linker and I am trying to compile GHC 7.6.1 using it. I grabbed GHC 7.6.1 from haskell.org/ghc and edited settings; i.e. removing --hash-size=31 and --reduce-memory-overheads.

While running make the linker cannot find some object files:

$ make
===--- building phase 0
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'.
===--- building phase 1
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_1_builds'.
===--- building final phase
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final all
/usr/bin/xsltproc  docs/man/flags.xsl docs/man/flags.xml > docs/man/ghc.1
  HC [stage 0] utils/hp2ps/dist/build/tmp/hp2ps
Warning: -rtsopts and -with-rtsopts have no effect with -no-hs-main.
    Call hs_init_ghc() from your main() function to set these options.
"cp" -p utils/hp2ps/dist/build/tmp/hp2ps inplace/bin/hp2ps
  HC [stage 0] utils/genapply/dist/build/tmp/genapply
"cp" -p utils/genapply/dist/build/tmp/genapply inplace/bin/genapply
  HC [stage 1] libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__1.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__2.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__3.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__4.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__5.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__6.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__7.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__8.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__9.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__10.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__11.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__12.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__13.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__14.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__15.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__16.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__17.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__18.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__19.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__20.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__21.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__22.o
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: error: cannot find libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types_o_split/Types__23.o
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

All object files that cannot be found are present and switching /usr/bin/ld to the bfd linker solves the problem.

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.6.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
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