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[PATCH] gnu: ghc-9.2: Make Cabal respect GHC_PACKAGE_PATH

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From: Sören Tempel <soeren <at> soeren-tempel.net>
To: Saku Laesvuori <saku <at> laesvuori.fi>
Cc: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>, 67896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#67896] [PATCH] gnu: ghc-9.2: Make Cabal respect GHC_PACKAGE_PATH
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 10:37:45 +0100

I just tested this, the patch applies cleanly for both GHC 9.4.8 and 9.6.3.

Saku Laesvuori <saku <at> laesvuori.fi> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net> wrote:
> > > sorry for the delay, I just tried your patch and it works well combining
> > > a local cabal project and libraries/GHC from Guix. I’d say this is a
> > > massive improvement, so I’d like to ship it with Guix. However this
> > > is a world rebuilding change, so I’ll push it to the haskell-team
> > > branch and probably wait for #67921 to be ready before it can hit master.
> > 
> > Yea, glad to hear that. Waiting for #67921 is fine by me. Should I also
> > prepare a patch for the GHC 9.4 package then? Currently this is only GHC
> > 9.2.
> 
> I'm currently trying to update GHC to 9.6 in that series (there are some
> weird issues when running the test suite). If the same cabal patch works
> with GHC 9.6 I can add the reference to it in the package definition
> (same with 9.4). Otherwise a patch for those versions would be nice.

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