When the ghc-paths library is compiled, the paths of the
compiler it is compiled with are being hardcoded in the
library (and can then be queried from other applications
using the library).
But on Nix, packages are compiled with ghc-wrapper, and
subsequently possibly used with a special version of ghc
generated for a particular environment of packages. So
one version of ghc-paths may potentially end up being
used by lots of different instances of ghc. The hardcoding
approach fails.
As a work-around, we now patch ghc-paths so that it allows
setting the paths that can be queried via environment
variables. Specific GHC environments can then set these
environment variables in the wrapper shell script that
invokes GHC.
This should at least partially solve issue #213.
By now, it happened twice that a commit broke GHC and thus all Haskell packages
we have in Nixpkgs. On such an occasion, I receive well in excess of 3000
notification e-mails from Hydra, and then I receive another 3000 e-mails after
the bug has been fixed. Under these circumstances, subscribing to these
notifications makes no sense for me.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=33392
The new files ...
* conform to the coding guidelines,
* consistently specify meta.maintainers and meta.platforms,
* have proper descriptions and licenses as specified in their Cabal file, and
* take advantage of the new cabal.nix extensions, i.e. proper
distinction between buildInputs and propagatedBuildInputs.
Furthermore, the following updates were performed:
* haskell-Ranged-sets: updated to version 0.3.0
* haskell-Shellac-haskeline: updated to version 0.2.0.1
* haskell-cpphs: updated to version 1.12
* haskell-hslogger: updated to version 1.1.5
* haskell-xml: updated to version 1.3.9
* haskell-HDBC-postgresql: updated to version 2.3.2.0
* haskell-HDBC-sqlite3: updated to version 2.3.3.0
* haskell-HDBC: updated to version 2.3.1.0
* haskell-base-unicode-symbols: updated to version 0.2.2.1
* haskell-convertible: updated to version 1.0.11.0
* haskell-monad-control: updated to version 0.2.0.2
* haskell-murmur-hash: updated to version 0.1.0.4
* haskell-repa: updated to version 2.1.1.3
* haskell-statistics: updated to version 0.9.0.0
* haskell-ansi-terminal: updated to version 0.5.5
haskell-maybench was dropped, because it cannot be built with recent
versions of Cabal:
Configuring maybench-0.2.4.1...
Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
Cabal >=1.2 && <1.5
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=28446
