commit 7b45030b81fb0588b858400c051f9f7c10ef2760
Author: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 6 11:39:18 2010 +0300

    Fixing link failure of compiler on ia64 ('-Wl,' prefixed value passed directly to ld)
    
        /usr/bin/ld -Wl,--relax -r -o dist-stage1/build/HSghc-6.10.4.o \
                                      dist-stage1/build/BasicTypes.o dist-stage1/build/DataCon.o ...
        /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,--relax'
    
    If we just drop '-Wl,' part it will not help as '-r' and '--relax' are incompatible.
    
    Looks like '-Wl,--relax' was skipped by earlier binutils' ld as unknown option.
    Removing ia64 specific path.
    
    Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>

diff --git a/compiler/ghc.mk b/compiler/ghc.mk
index 6b25efa..29d3ade 100644
--- a/compiler/ghc.mk
+++ b/compiler/ghc.mk
@@ -337,13 +337,6 @@ ifeq "$(TargetOS_CPP)" "openbsd"
 compiler_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --ld-options=-E
 endif
 
-ifeq "$(GhcUnregisterised)" "NO"
-ifeq "$(HOSTPLATFORM)" "ia64-unknown-linux"
-# needed for generating proper relocation in large binaries: trac #856
-compiler_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --ld-option=-Wl,--relax
-endif
-endif
-
 # We need to turn on profiling either if we have been asked to
 # (GhcLibProfiled = YES) or if we want GHC itself to be compiled with
 # profiling enabled (GhcProfiled = YES).