Haskell programs depend on gmp to implement the unbounded Integer type. Without
static variants of gmp we cannot build statically linked Haskell programs, what
some users have found desirable in the past. So far, we've used an override to
derive our own copy of gmp in the Haskell ecosystem, but this patch ends the
dichotomy between Haskell and the rest of Nixpkgs by enabling static gmp
libraries in the default build default.
These versions have been removed:
- 6.4.2-binary.nix
- 6.4.2.nix
- 6.6.1.nix
- 6.8.2.nix
- 6.8.3.nix
- 6.10.1-binary.nix
- 6.10.1.nix
- 6.10.2.nix
- 6.10.3.nix
- 6.11.nix
- 6.12.1-binary.nix
- 6.12.1.nix
- 6.12.2.nix
- 7.0.1.nix
- 7.0.2.nix
- 7.0.3.nix
- 7.2.1.nix
- 7.4.1.nix
- 7.6.1.nix
- 7.6.2.nix
- 7.8.3-binary.nix
As a rule of thumb, we keep the latest version in every major release. If
someone feels up to the task of fixing versions 6.4.x, 6.6.x, and 6.8.x, then
please don't hesitate to revive those builds.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5630.
