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Installation error Cabal / usr / bin / ld: --hash-size = 31: unknown parameter

When trying to install any package on my computer using a command like

cabal install http-conduit

Installation aborts with the following error:

 /usr/bin/ld: --hash-size=31: unknown option

How can i solve this?

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This issue occurs with binutils-gold and GHC 7.4. There is an old mailing list entry discussing this issue.

For example, you might need binutils-gold for LLVM, but GHC 7.4 cannot handle the GOLD linker correctly because it does not understand the --hash-size parameter.

As noted in the mail list, the solution to this is to remove binutils-gold, for example. on using Ubuntu:

 sudo apt-get remove binutils-gold

This will cause /usr/bin/ld to re-symbolize to a non-GOLD linker version. After that, repeat the cabal install command.

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