(address . guix-patches@gnu.org)
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From: Sören Tempel <soeren@soeren-tempel.net>
**tl;dr** Applying this patch makes Cabal work in Guix environments
and ensures that Cabal picks up Haskell packages installed via Guix.
Guix makes heavy use of GHC_PACKAGE_PATH to make GHC pickup Haskell
packages installed via the Guix package manager. The environment
variable is set using native-search-paths from the GHC packages.
Unfortunately, upstream Cabal does presently not respect
GHC_PACKAGE_PATH. If this environment variable is set, `cabal build`
and other commands will terminate. For building packages, Guix does
not make much use of cabal-install hence this is not as big of an
issue. However, cabal-install does therefore presently not work
out-of-the-box in environments created by Guix. For example,
in `guix shell` environments. This makes it essentially impossible
to use Guix for setting up development environments for Haskell software.
Cabal upstream is aware of this issue and a patch exists to workaround
this problem. The patch is currently not merged upstream due to issues
related to reconfiguration (changing GHC_PACKAGE_PATH between `cabal
configure` and `cabal build`). However, I would argue that this edge
case is not that relevant for Guix and therefore propose including
this patch with the Cabal Guix package. As outlined above, cabal-install
is not usable by default presently, and I would therefore argue that
this is a major improvement over the current situation. I am willing to
work with Cabal upstream to have this issue fixed upstream eventually.
Note that this requires patching the GHC package instead of the
cabal-install package as Guix uses the version of the Cabal package
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal distributed with GHC.
* gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm (cabal-install): Include patch
to support the GHC_PACKAGE_PATH environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Sören Tempel <soeren@soeren-tempel.net>
---
gnu/packages/haskell.scm | 3 +-
.../ghc-9.2-cabal-support-package-path.patch | 67 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/ghc-9.2-cabal-support-package-path.patch
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
index 62815efbb1..0cd0734d6d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
@@ -1348,7 +1348,8 @@ (define-public ghc-9.2
(sha256
(base32
"07028i0hm74svvq9b3jpkczaj6lsdgn3hgr4wa7diqiq3dypj1h6"))
- (patches (search-patches "ghc-9.2-glibc-2.33-link-order.patch"))))
+ (patches (search-patches "ghc-9.2-glibc-2.33-link-order.patch"
+ "ghc-9.2-cabal-support-package-path.patch"))))
(arguments
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments base)
((#:phases phases '%standard-phases)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/ghc-9.2-cabal-support-package-path.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/ghc-9.2-cabal-support-package-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e4c405c50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/ghc-9.2-cabal-support-package-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+Without this patch, Cabal terminates if GHC_PACKAGE_PATH is set. This is
+an annoyance with Guix as it makes heavy use of GHC_PACKAGE_PATH to have
+GHC pickup Haskell package installed via Guix. Therefore, Cabal does
+presently not work by default in environments created by Guix. This is
+a workaround which makes Cabal respect GHC_PACKAGE_PATH.
+
+Taken from https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/3728
+
+diff -upr a/libraries/Cabal/Cabal/src/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs b/libraries/Cabal/Cabal/src/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
+--- a/libraries/Cabal/Cabal/src/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs 2022-11-06 20:41:17.000000000 +0100
++++ b/libraries/Cabal/Cabal/src/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs 2023-12-18 14:34:15.148911717 +0100
+@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ module Distribution.Simple.GHC (
+ ) where
+
+ import Prelude ()
++import Distribution.Compat.Environment (lookupEnv)
+ import Distribution.Compat.Prelude
+
+ import qualified Distribution.Simple.GHC.Internal as Internal
+@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ import System.Directory
+ , canonicalizePath, removeFile, renameFile, getDirectoryContents )
+ import System.FilePath ( (</>), (<.>), takeExtension
+ , takeDirectory, replaceExtension
+- ,isRelative )
++ , isRelative, searchPathSeparator )
+ import qualified System.Info
+ #ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS
+ import System.Posix (createSymbolicLink)
+@@ -333,9 +334,11 @@ getInstalledPackages :: Verbosity -> Com
+ -> ProgramDb
+ -> IO InstalledPackageIndex
+ getInstalledPackages verbosity comp packagedbs progdb = do
+- checkPackageDbEnvVar verbosity
+ checkPackageDbStack verbosity comp packagedbs
+- pkgss <- getInstalledPackages' verbosity packagedbs progdb
++ envPackageDBs <-
++ maybe [] (map SpecificPackageDB . unintersperse searchPathSeparator)
++ <$> lookupEnv "GHC_PACKAGE_PATH"
++ pkgss <- getInstalledPackages' verbosity (envPackageDBs ++ packagedbs) progdb
+ index <- toPackageIndex verbosity pkgss progdb
+ return $! hackRtsPackage index
+
+@@ -405,10 +408,6 @@ getUserPackageDB _verbosity ghcProg plat
+ packageConfFileName = "package.conf.d"
+ ghcVersion = fromMaybe (error "GHC.getUserPackageDB: no ghc version") $ programVersion ghcProg
+
+-checkPackageDbEnvVar :: Verbosity -> IO ()
+-checkPackageDbEnvVar verbosity =
+- Internal.checkPackageDbEnvVar verbosity "GHC" "GHC_PACKAGE_PATH"
+-
+ checkPackageDbStack :: Verbosity -> Compiler -> PackageDBStack -> IO ()
+ checkPackageDbStack verbosity comp =
+ if flagPackageConf implInfo
+@@ -461,8 +460,11 @@ getInstalledPackagesMonitorFiles :: Verb
+ -> ProgramDb
+ -> [PackageDB]
+ -> IO [FilePath]
+-getInstalledPackagesMonitorFiles verbosity platform progdb =
+- traverse getPackageDBPath
++getInstalledPackagesMonitorFiles verbosity platform progdb packageDBs = do
++ envPackageDBs <-
++ maybe [] (map SpecificPackageDB . unintersperse searchPathSeparator)
++ <$> lookupEnv "GHC_PACKAGE_PATH"
++ traverse getPackageDBPath (envPackageDBs ++ packageDBs)
+ where
+ getPackageDBPath :: PackageDB -> IO FilePath
+ getPackageDBPath GlobalPackageDB =
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