-# We don't include any of the boilerplate Makefiles as we are used
-# by configure. GHC should be overridden on the command line to the
-# GHC that you want to use.
+# Beyond stage 1, honour any Mac OS X depolyment target options. If we use
+# these options in stage 1 we get a linker error if the bootstrap compiler is
+# for a more recent OS version
+ifeq "$(stage)" "2"
+SRC_CC_OPTS += $(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_CC_OPTS)
+SRC_HC_OPTS += $(addprefix -optc, $(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_CC_OPTS))
+SRC_LD_OPTS += $(addprefix -optl, $(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_LD_OPTS))
+endif