On 05/03/2014 07:42 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: > On 05/03/2014 07:15 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: >> Amongst my struggles to get recent GHC HEAD snapshots to work on NixOS, >> I noticed that GHC 7.4.2 is used to bootstrap it. Perhaps that's what's >> causing the problems[1] so my current goal is to make a binary install >> of GHC 7.8.2 work. To be clear, I want to be able to install the GHC >> 7.8.2 binary provided by the GHC team, which I can then hopefully use to >> bootstrap HEAD. >> >> [snip] >> >> I am now stuck here, I don't know how to get the binaries to see the >> libraries properly. All this happens during the installPhase (left >> default) step, copying the libs followed by whatever it is the binaries >> are meant to be doing. The next thing that comes to mind is to gut GHC's >> install phase to let me patchelf the binaries after copying the >> libraries, but that doesn't sound pretty. Perhaps I am simply doing >> something very wrong, or the nix code from 7.4.2 messes something up. >> >> I am attaching the two relevant files. Any input *very* welcome. >> >> [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2428 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > Alternatively, instructions on how to use GHC 7.8.2 that we can build > (or get from Hydra) already to build 7.9 would probably be much easier. >
This was actually as easy as: ghc782Binary = pkgs.haskellPackages_ghc782.ghc; I wish I thought of this about 6 hours ago. Apologies for the noise, I hope we can have building HEAD soon. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
