diff -Nru ghc-8.0.2/debian/changelog ghc-8.0.2/debian/changelog
--- ghc-8.0.2/debian/changelog	2017-06-30 07:00:47.000000000 +0000
+++ ghc-8.0.2/debian/changelog	2017-07-02 20:14:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ghc (8.0.2-5ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium
+
+  * Really try to use BFD on arm64
+
+ -- Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>  Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:14:36 +0200
+
 ghc (8.0.2-5ubuntu2) artful; urgency=medium
 
   * Revert the previous upload, BFD is not really suitable
diff -Nru ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/bfd-linker-arm64.patch ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/bfd-linker-arm64.patch
--- ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/bfd-linker-arm64.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/bfd-linker-arm64.patch	2017-07-02 20:14:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Description: Use BFD on arm64, because the new binutils seems to be not able to link it anymore
+Author: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
+
+Last-Update: 2017-07-02
+
+--- ghc-8.0.2.orig/aclocal.m4
++++ ghc-8.0.2/aclocal.m4
+@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS],
+         # On aarch64/linux and aarch64/android, tell gcc to link using the
+         # gold linker.
+         # Forcing LD to be ld.gold is done in FIND_LD m4 macro.
+-        $3="$$3 -fuse-ld=gold -Wl,-z,noexecstack"
++        $3="$$3 -fuse-ld=bfd -Wl,-z,noexecstack"
+         $4="$$4 -z noexecstack"
+         ;;
+ 
+@@ -2043,8 +2043,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([FIND_LLVM_PROG],[
+ AC_DEFUN([FIND_LD],[
+     FP_ARG_WITH_PATH_GNU_PROG([LD], [ld], [ld])
+     case $target in
+-        arm*linux*       | \
+-        aarch64*linux*   )
++        arm*linux*)
+             # Arm and Aarch64 requires use of the binutils ld.gold linker.
+             # This case should catch at least arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf,
+             # arm-linux-androideabi, arm64-unknown-linux and
diff -Nru ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/series ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/series
--- ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/series	2017-06-25 19:52:22.000000000 +0000
+++ ghc-8.0.2/debian/patches/series	2017-07-02 20:14:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 compiler-cmm-PprC-sparc-alignment.patch
 x32-use-native-x86_64-insn.patch
 osdecommitmemory-compat.patch
+bfd-linker-arm64.patch
diff -Nru ghc-8.0.2/debian/rules ghc-8.0.2/debian/rules
--- ghc-8.0.2/debian/rules	2017-06-30 07:00:46.000000000 +0000
+++ ghc-8.0.2/debian/rules	2017-07-02 20:13:40.000000000 +0000
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 	echo "HADDOCK_DOCS := YES" >> mk/build.mk
 	echo "EXTRA_HADDOCK_OPTS += --mathjax=file:///usr/share/javascript/mathjax/MathJax.js" >> mk/build.mk
 	echo "XSLTPROC_OPTS += --nonet" >> mk/build.mk
-ifneq (,$(filter arm64 armel armhf, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+ifneq (,$(filter armel armhf, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
 	echo "SRC_HC_OPTS     += -optl-B/usr/bin/ld.gold" >> mk/build.mk
 endif
 ifeq (armhf,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH))