Make nixpkgs GHC 9.6.x work #1921
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Some newer GHC versions have the `package.conf.d` below a `lib` directory.
... on Windows. The pkg conf file for rts has entries for `haddock-interface` and `haddock-html` but neither of those actually exist.
In previous GHC versions from nixpkgs, the `otool` setting was referencing a tool in the nix store, but for GHC 9.6.2 it is just set to "otool" which means it must be in `$PATH`. The same applies to the `install_name_tool`. See NixOS/nixpkgs#267250 and https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24211 We work around by using the location of the `ar` command and assume the other tools (from the bintools package) are also available at the same place.
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Trying to build this results in a bus error with ghc-iserv.
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| if hs.toolchain.is_darwin: | ||
| # assume `otool` and `install_name_tool` are available at the same location as `ar` | ||
| ar_bindir = paths.dirname(cc.tools.ar) | ||
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| compile_flags += [ | ||
| "-pgmotool=" + paths.join(ar_bindir, "otool"), | ||
| "-pgminstall_name_tool=" + paths.join(ar_bindir, "install_name_tool"), | ||
| ] |
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I suspect this may fail for users that try to use a hermetic bindist cc toolchain like grail's llvm toolchain. I'm fine with this for now as it is an improvement over the status quo. But, from what I understand so far, this may not cover all use-cases, yet.
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Yes, we probably will need a better solution to this in the future.
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Fixes #1920 and fixes #2031
Note that I had to skip the profiling test
//tests/haskell_module/dep-narrowing-th:Teston macos for GHC 9.6 as it crashes callingghc-iserv, see #2073.