fix a warning

[ghc-hetmet.git] / aclocal.m4

diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index 3937ac8..858a3f0 100644 (file)
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -363,6 +363,12 @@ case $HostPlatform in
              LdCmd="`cygpath -w ${fp_prog_ld_raw} | sed -e 's@\\\\@/@g'`"
               AC_MSG_NOTICE([normalized ld command to $LdCmd])
             fi
+           # Insist on >= ld-2.15.x, since earlier versions doesn't handle
+           # the generation of relocatable object files with large amounts
+           # of relocations correctly. (cf. HSbase.o splittage-hack)
+           fp_prog_ld_version=`${LdCmd} --version | sed -n '/GNU ld/p' | tr -cd 0-9 | cut -b1-3`
+           FP_COMPARE_VERSIONS([$fp_prog_ld_version],[-lt],[214],
+                                [AC_MSG_ERROR([GNU ld version later than 2.14 required to compile GHC on Windows.])])[]dnl
             ;;
 esac
 AC_SUBST([LdCmd])