Cabal2nix expects a --compiler flag that contains a Cabal Compiler description.
We used to use the compiler's derivation name for this, but this breaks when
cross-compiling due to the target suffix. Instead we add an explicit
haskellCompilerName attribute to Haskell compiler derivations.
GHC currently handles this stuff in a quite non-standard way, basically
taking prog var `FOO` to mean `FOO_FROM_TARGET`. It's because it
(wrongly) thinks from stage 2's perspective.
One should do this when needed executables at run time. It is more
honest and cross-friendly than refering to binutils directly, if one
neeeds the default binary tools for the target platform, rather than
binutils in particular.
This reverts commit dfb0f25484, reversing
changes made to 7f8ff02437. These changes broke
the ghcWithPackages wrapper:
nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (ps: [ps.mtl])" --run "ghc-pkg list mtl"
/nix/store/szz84j5k1dy3jdashis6ws28d8l8zxxb-ghc-8.0.2-with-packages/lib/ghc-8.0.2/package.conf.d
(no packages)
* pkgs: refactor needless quoting of homepage meta attribute
A lot of packages are needlessly quoting the homepage meta attribute
(about 1400, 22%), this commit refactors all of those instances.
* pkgs: Fixing some links that were wrongfully unquoted in the previous
commit
* Fixed some instances
It would otherwise result into undefined referenecs for some functions
in the base when using the gold linker:
error: undefined reference to 'sqrt'
Fixes https://github.com/bos/double-conversion/pull/17
Previously ghc option -optl=-lm was used for packages depending on
such functions, but that could result into
fatal error: cannot mix -r with dynamic object /nix/store/7crrmih8c52r8fbnqb933dxrsp44md93-glibc-2.25/lib/libm.so.6
in some situations like profiling builds.
Patch was prepared by Michael Bishop and Niklas Hambüchen.
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/27584.
If the flag enableIntegerSimple is true GHC will be build with the GPL-free but
slower integer-simple library instead of the faster but GPLed integer-gmp
library.
The attribute `pkgs.haskell.compiler.integer-simple."${ghcVersion}"` provides a
GHC compiler build with `integer-simple`.
Similarly, the attribute `pkgs.haskell.packages.integer-simple."${ghcVersion}"`
provides a package set supporting `integer-simple`.
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/22121.
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5493.
