compilation failure on OpenBSD

GHC HEAD as of June 30 2015 fails to compile on OpenBSD 5.7/5.8-beta with following error (I've cut off all warnings there):

"inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -optc-fno-stack-protector -optc-Wall -optc-Wall -optc-Wextra -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate
-return -optc-Wpointer-arith -optc-Wmissing-noreturn -optc-Wnested-externs -optc-Wredundant-decls -optc-Iincludes -optc-Iincludes/dist -optc-Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -optc-Iincludes
/dist-ghcconstants/header -optc-Irts -optc-Irts/dist/build -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fno-strict-aliasing -optc-fno-common -optc-Irts/dist/build/autogen -optc-O2 -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-g
 -optc-DRtsWay=\"rts_v\" -static  -H64m -O0  -Iincludes -Iincludes/dist -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header -Irts -Irts/dist/build -DCOMPILING_RTS -this-pa
ckage-key rts -dcmm-lint      -i -irts -irts/dist/build -irts/dist/build/autogen -Irts/dist/build -Irts/dist/build/autogen           -O2    -c rts/Linker.c -o rts/dist/build/Linker.o

In file included from rts/Linker.c:92:0: error: 

[...]
rts/Linker.c: In function 'getSectionKind_ELF':

rts/Linker.c:5308:0: error:
     error: 'SHT_INIT_ARRAY' undeclared (first use in this function)

rts/Linker.c:5308:0: error:
     error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

rts/Linker.c:5308:0: error:
     error: for each function it appears in.)
rts/ghc.mk:243: recipe for target 'rts/dist/build/Linker.o' failed
gmake[1]: *** [rts/dist/build/Linker.o] Error 1

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.11
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Runtime System
Test case
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CC	simonmar
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Fixed in D1023

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Fixed in bbf60786:

Author: Karel Gardas <>
Date:   Wed Jul 1 00:02:52 2015 +0200

    disable check for .init_array section on OpenBSD
    
    Summary:
    The patch disables check for .init_array section on OpenBSD.
    It is provided in OpenBSD ports tree and was done by Matthias Kilian.
    
    Reviewers: austin
    
    Subscribers: thomie, bgamari
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1023

Please set milestone back to 7.10.3 and status=merge if this needs to go to the 7.10 branch as well.

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Resolution	Unresolved → ResolvedFixed

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