#22: platform tarball does not work out of the box on NixOS
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Reporter: kosmikus | Owner: dons
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Platform | Keywords:
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[I don't really expect this to be fixed, but want to provide the
information here in order to preserve it.]
The problem is that on NixOS, none of the libraries that the Haskell
Platform expects
(zlib, OpenGL/mesa just to name a few) are in standard paths. One sensible
option if a
user wants to make a user install is that a user has them in a local
profile, so includes
would be in $HOME/.nix-profile/include and libs in $HOME/.nix-profile/lib.
The configure script can be made to work by setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to
make use of these
dirs. However, the actual build process invokes Cabal, and Cabal has to
pass these flags to
the individual packages via --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs, and
I can't see a
way to make that happen.
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