diff --git a/Cabal/ChangeLog.md b/Cabal/ChangeLog.md
index ae0ba7932fc..81cb7f3348a 100644
--- a/Cabal/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/Cabal/ChangeLog.md
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@
     `non`) and an optics to access the modules in a component
     of a `PackageDescription` by the `ComponentName`:
     `componentBuildInfo` and `componentModules`
+  * Linker `ld-options` are now passed to GHC as `-optl` options
+    ([#4925](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4925)).
   * Add `readGhcEnvironmentFile` to parse GHC environment files.
   * Drop support for GHC 7.4, since it is out of our support window
     (and has been for over a year!)
diff --git a/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs b/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
index 67a5c2d4d5c..6d9f15e1c64 100644
--- a/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
+++ b/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
@@ -577,7 +577,11 @@ buildOrReplLib mReplFlags verbosity numJobs pkg_descr lbi lib clbi = do
       linkerOpts = mempty {
                       ghcOptLinkOptions       = PD.ldOptions libBi
                                                 ++ [ "-static"
-                                                   | withFullyStaticExe lbi ],
+                                                   | withFullyStaticExe lbi ]
+                                                -- Pass extra `ld-options` given
+                                                -- through to GHC's linker.
+                                                ++ maybe [] programOverrideArgs
+                                                     (lookupProgram ldProgram (withPrograms lbi)),
                       ghcOptLinkLibs          = extraLibs libBi,
                       ghcOptLinkLibPath       = toNubListR $ extraLibDirs libBi,
                       ghcOptLinkFrameworks    = toNubListR $ PD.frameworks libBi,
@@ -1274,7 +1278,11 @@ gbuild verbosity numJobs pkg_descr lbi bm clbi = do
       linkerOpts = mempty {
                       ghcOptLinkOptions       = PD.ldOptions bnfo
                                                 ++ [ "-static"
-                                                   | withFullyStaticExe lbi ],
+                                                   | withFullyStaticExe lbi ]
+                                                -- Pass extra `ld-options` given
+                                                -- through to GHC's linker.
+                                                ++ maybe [] programOverrideArgs
+                                                     (lookupProgram ldProgram (withPrograms lbi)),
                       ghcOptLinkLibs          = extraLibs bnfo,
                       ghcOptLinkLibPath       = toNubListR $ extraLibDirs bnfo,
                       ghcOptLinkFrameworks    = toNubListR $