Build failure on GHC 8.x (macOS 10.14): ld: unknown option: -no_fixup_chains

[andreasabel]

I am getting build errors on macOS 10.14 which I have not seen before. They happen with any GHC 8 version and disappear with GHC 9:

$ cabal build -w ghc-8.10.7
...
Preprocessing library for zlib-0.6.3.0..
linking /Users/abel/bin/src/zlib/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/zlib-0.6.3.0/build/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Stream_hsc_make.o failed (exit code 1)
rsp file was: "/Users/abel/bin/src/zlib/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/zlib-0.6.3.0/build/Codec/Compression/Zlib/hsc2hscall34067-2.rsp"
command was: /usr/bin/gcc /Users/abel/bin/src/zlib/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/zlib-0.6.3.0/build/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Stream_hsc_make.o /Users/abel/bin/src/zlib/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/zlib-0.6.3.0/build/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Stream_hsc_utils.o -o /Users/abel/bin/src/zlib/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/zlib-0.6.3.0/build/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Stream_hsc_make \
  --target=x86_64-apple-darwin -Wl,-no_fixup_chains -L/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib -lz -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/bytestring-0.10.12.0 -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/deepseq-1.4.4.0 -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/array-0.5.4.0 -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/base-4.14.3.0 -liconv -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/integer-gmp-1.0.3.0 -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-prim-0.6.1 -L/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.10.7/rts -lm -ldl
error: ld: unknown option: -no_fixup_chains
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

The latest macOS virtual environment does not have this problem: https://github.com/andreasabel/zlib/actions/runs/4194386615/jobs/7272477723#step:5:23
There is only a warning:

ld: warning: -undefined dynamic_lookup may not work with chained fixups

I am putting this up here, maybe someone has an idea how to work around this.

[andreasabel]

Probably my system was broken. Fine after upgrading to macOS 12.