John Ericson authored May 30, 2019 and Marge Bot committed Jun 07, 2019

ghc-pkg and ghc already both needed this. I figure it is better to
deduplicate, especially seeing that changes to one (FreeBSD CPP) didn't
make it to the other.

Additionally in !1090 I make ghc-pkg look up the settings file, which
makes it use the top dir a bit more widely. If that lands, any
difference in the way they find the top dir would be more noticable.

That change also means sharing more code between ghc and ghc-package
(namely the settings file parsing code), so I'd think it better to get
off the slipperly slope of duplicating code now.