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`runhaskell Setup.hs configure --enable-split-sections` etc not documented online

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**What is wrong with the docs?**
GHC's `-split-objs` flag was deprecated in favour of `-split-sections` in GHC 8.2.1 and is not supported on any platform from GHC 8.10.1. You would not know that from reading: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/stable/setup-commands.html#cmdoption-runhaskell-Setup.hs-configure-enable-split-objs

Further, Cabal's `runhaskell Setup.hs configure --enable-split-sections` (etc) is not documented online and only in `runhaskell Setup.hs configure --help`.

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