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Ghc 8.6.5 fails to find core package database

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From: Gabriel Giamarchi <gabrielg <at> student.ethz.ch>
To: <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Ghc 8.6.5 fails to find core package database
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:21:08 +0200

Installing only 'ghc 8.6.5' (Glasgow Haskell compiler) and sourcing

'~/.guix-profile/etc/profile' leads to ghc not finding core modules.
('ghci' doesn't find System.IO for instance).

This is due to $GHC_PACKAGE_PATH not containing ghc 8.6.5's 
package.conf.d, but
instead ghc 8.4.3's database.
Note: Not setting this variable leads to a working ghc (will search in 
default
location), but is required to install additional packages via guix.

The issue might come from guix/profiles.scm:812, since
  (module-ref (resolve-interface '(gnu packages haskell)) 'ghc)
evaluates to <package ghc <at> 8.4.3 gnu/packages/haskell.scm:445> in my repl.

Message #8 received at 37064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>
To: Gabriel Giamarchi <gabrielg <at> student.ethz.ch>
Cc: 37064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37064: Ghc 8.6.5 fails to find core package database
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:26:37 -0400

Hi Gabriel,

Gabriel Giamarchi <gabrielg <at> student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Installing only 'ghc 8.6.5' (Glasgow Haskell compiler) and sourcing
>
> '~/.guix-profile/etc/profile' leads to ghc not finding core modules.
> ('ghci' doesn't find System.IO for instance).
>
> This is due to $GHC_PACKAGE_PATH not containing ghc 8.6.5's
> package.conf.d, but
> instead ghc 8.4.3's database.

Ouch!

> Note: Not setting this variable leads to a working ghc (will search in
> default
> location), but is required to install additional packages via guix.
>
> The issue might come from guix/profiles.scm:812, since
>   (module-ref (resolve-interface '(gnu packages haskell)) 'ghc)
> evaluates to <package ghc <at> 8.4.3 gnu/packages/haskell.scm:445> in my repl.

Good catch.  I can confirm this is the issue, but I’m not sure how to
fix it.  We could try to find GHC from the profile rather than
unconditionally using a certain package.  However, that would not help
if someone were to install GHC 8.4 and 8.6 in the same profile.


-- Tim

Message #13 received at 37064-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>
To: Gabriel Giamarchi <gabrielg <at> student.ethz.ch>
Cc: 37064-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37064: Ghc 8.6.5 fails to find core package database
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 22:05:43 -0400

Hi again,

Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com> writes:

> Gabriel Giamarchi <gabrielg <at> student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> Installing only 'ghc 8.6.5' (Glasgow Haskell compiler) and sourcing
>>
>> '~/.guix-profile/etc/profile' leads to ghc not finding core modules.
>> ('ghci' doesn't find System.IO for instance).
>>
>> This is due to $GHC_PACKAGE_PATH not containing ghc 8.6.5's
>> package.conf.d, but
>> instead ghc 8.4.3's database.
>>
>> Note: Not setting this variable leads to a working ghc (will search in
>> default
>> location), but is required to install additional packages via guix.
>>
>> The issue might come from guix/profiles.scm:812, since
>>   (module-ref (resolve-interface '(gnu packages haskell)) 'ghc)
>> evaluates to <package ghc <at> 8.4.3 gnu/packages/haskell.scm:445> in my repl.
>
> Good catch.  I can confirm this is the issue, but I’m not sure how to
> fix it.  We could try to find GHC from the profile rather than
> unconditionally using a certain package.  However, that would not help
> if someone were to install GHC 8.4 and 8.6 in the same profile.

I took another look at this and we were wrong!  The main issue here is
that I made a mistake in the GHC 8.6 package definition, and it was
setting GHC_PACKAGE_PATH incorrectly.  This should be fixed as of commit
83aa656217.  Sorry for the trouble.

Note that you will likely run into trouble trying to use other
Guix-provided Haskell packages with GHC 8.6, as they are all built with
GHC 8.4.  AFAIU, this is not something that GHC supports.


-- Tim

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