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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2022-06-08 19:22:02 -0400
committerMatthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com>2022-06-16 15:20:07 +0100
commit037eb5e59d9071811103e699ae5f5e2ef28f1ea5 (patch)
tree55c9d9331a6b7065daf08688736aed3ce443db96
parent641972d65b476aac11424bde6c3bcfda1c65aef5 (diff)
downloadhaskell-037eb5e59d9071811103e699ae5f5e2ef28f1ea5.tar.gz
configure: Don't attempt to override linker on Darwin
Configure's --enable-ld-override functionality is intended to ensure that we don't rely on ld.bfd, which tends to be slow and buggy, on Linux and Windows. However, on Darwin the lack of sensible package management makes it extremely easy for users to have awkward mixtures of toolchain components from, e.g., XCode, the Apple Command-Line Tools package, and homebrew. This leads to extremely confusing problems like #21712. Here we avoid this by simply giving up on linker selection on Darwin altogether. This isn't so bad since the Apple ld64 linker has decent performance and AFAICT fairly reliable. Closes #21712. (cherry picked from commit bde65ea90ed61696eefc93c83efddf7af68d413e)
-rw-r--r--m4/find_ld.m49
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/m4/find_ld.m4 b/m4/find_ld.m4
index 3d4443be54..396bd936f9 100644
--- a/m4/find_ld.m4
+++ b/m4/find_ld.m4
@@ -61,7 +61,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([FIND_LD],[
AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL([LD], [ld])
}
- if test "x$enable_ld_override" = "xyes"; then
+ if test "$ghc_host_os" = "darwin" ; then
+ dnl N.B. Don't even try to find a more efficient linker on Darwin where
+ dnl broken setups (e.g. unholy mixtures of Homebrew and the native
+ dnl toolchain) are far too easy to come across.
+ dnl
+ dnl See #21712.
+ AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL([LD], [ld])
+ elif test "x$enable_ld_override" = "xyes"; then
find_ld
else
AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL([LD], [ld])