id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc os architecture failure difficulty testcase blockedby blocking related 7452 [GNU gold] ld: error: cannot find [...]/Types__1.o mrothe "`/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." bug new high 7.8.1 Build System 7.6.1 Linux x86_64 (amd64) Building GHC failed Unknown