Haskell ghc compiling/linking error, not creating executable. (linux)

Question

I wrote a basic hello world program in haskel and tried to compile it with: ghc filename.hs. It produces .hi and .o files but no executable and displays this error in the li

Answer 1

Update - gold on Ubuntu 12.10 appears to move GNU ld to ld.bfd. To fix this problem I deleted the ld link as recommended and remade the link with

  ln -s ld.bfd ld

ghc compilations are now going through.

(Couldn't see how to subvert the settings file in usr/lib/ghc, as the entry is for gcc which passes through its commandline to ld, although this would have been my preferred option, in case something else needs ld to be the way it was.)

Thanks to Dominic for the pointer of where to look! It was driving me crazy...