ARM linker support

This patch adds ARM support in the RTS linker and enables ghci in the build system.

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Type	FeatureRequest
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
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https://github.com/bgamari/ghc/commit/e3aacf99e3a34f873df0699f8ea10b8535f08c56

assigned to @simonmar

changed milestone to %7.4.2

changed weight to 7

Thanks!

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Priority	normal → high

I don't see that commit in your github repo. Did you rebase it away or something?

$ git remote show bgamari
* remote bgamari
  Fetch URL: https://github.com/bgamari/ghc.git
  Push  URL: https://github.com/bgamari/ghc.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    arm-ghci                tracked
    arm-ghci-7.4            tracked
    arm-ghci-7.4-clean      tracked
    at-defaults             tracked
    encoding                tracked
    ghc-7.2                 tracked
    ghc-constraint-solver   tracked
    ghc-generics            tracked
    ghc-kinds               tracked
    ghc-new-co              tracked
    known-key-serialization tracked
    local-gc                tracked
    master                  tracked
    monad-comp              tracked
    no-pred-ty              tracked
    patch-4404              tracked
    patch-5084              tracked
    profiling               tracked
    supercompiler           tracked
    type-nats               tracked
  Local refs configured for 'git push':
    known-key-serialization pushes to known-key-serialization (up to date)
    master                  pushes to master                  (fast-forwardable)
$ git fetch bgamari
$ git show e3aacf99e3a34f873df0699f8ea10b8535f08c56
fatal: bad object e3aacf99e3a34f873df0699f8ea10b8535f08c56

Bah, sorry about that. Looks like I rebased it away. The new commit is https://github.com/bgamari/ghc/commit/c3018b21597c06979893a58da1a75db8db1ced94. The differences are quite minimal (just a few spelling and punctuation issues).

Thanks!

Are we still on for a 7.4.2 merge?

assigned to @trac-pcapriotti and unassigned @simonmar

Paulo, can you handle this one please?

Pushed as b22501b4.

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closed

Merged as 27302c90.

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Resolution	Unresolved → ResolvedFixed

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mentioned in issue #9683 (closed)

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