Disable optimisation when building Cabal in development flavours

This updates the make and Hadrian build flavours targetting developers
to disable optimisation when building the Cabal library. Cabal tends to
tickle some very bad compiler performance cases (e.g. #16577) so
disabling optimisation here makes a sizeable impact on overall build
time.

See #16817.

hadrian/cabal.project

 packages: ./
           ../libraries/Cabal/Cabal/
 
-# N.B. Compile with -O0 since this is not a performance-critical executable
-# and the Cabal takes nearly twice as long to build with -O1. See #16817.
+-- N.B. Compile with -O0 since this is not a performance-critical executable
+-- and the Cabal takes nearly twice as long to build with -O1. See #16817.
 package Cabal
   optimization: False
 

hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Development.hs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ module Settings.Flavours.Development (developmentFlavour) where
 
 import Expression
 import Flavour
+import Packages
 import {-# SOURCE #-} Settings.Default
 
 -- Please update doc/flavours.md when changing this file.
@@ -17,7 +18,10 @@ developmentArgs :: Stage -> Args
 developmentArgs ghcStage = do
     stage <- getStage
     sourceArgs SourceArgs
-        { hsDefault  = pure ["-O", "-H64m"]
+        { hsDefault  = mconcat [ pure ["-O", "-H64m"],
+                                 -- Disable optimization when building Cabal;
+                                 -- this saves many minutes of build time.
+                                 package cabal ? pure ["-O0"]]
         , hsLibrary  = notStage0 ? arg "-dcore-lint"
         , hsCompiler = mconcat [stage0 ? arg "-O2",
                                 succ stage == ghcStage ? pure ["-O0", "-DDEBUG"]]

mk/flavours/devel1.mk

@@ -10,3 +10,7 @@ BUILD_SPHINX_PDF   = NO
 BUILD_MAN          = NO
 
 LAX_DEPENDENCIES   = YES
+
+# Reduce optimisation when building Cabal; this makes a significant difference
+# in overall build time. See #16817.
+libraries/Cabal_dist-install_HC_OPTS += -O0

mk/flavours/devel2.mk

@@ -10,3 +10,7 @@ BUILD_SPHINX_PDF   = NO
 BUILD_MAN          = NO
 
 LAX_DEPENDENCIES   = YES
+
+# Reduce optimisation when building Cabal; this makes a significant difference
+# in overall build time. See #16817.
+libraries/Cabal_dist-install_HC_OPTS += -O0

mk/flavours/validate.mk

@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ endif
 
 WERROR             = -Werror
 
+# Reduce optimisation when building Cabal; this makes a significant difference
+# in overall build time. See #16817.
+libraries/Cabal_dist-install_HC_OPTS += -O0
+
 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Instead, create a file mk/validate.mk, whose settings
 # will override these. See also mk/custom-settings.mk.
 #
@@ -36,6 +40,7 @@ WERROR             = -Werror
 #
 #
 # Note [validate build settings]
+# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 #
 # Using GhcStage2HcOpts=-O (rather than -O0) here bringes my validate down from
 # 22mins to 16 mins. Compiling stage2 takes longer, but we gain a faster