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synopsis: Prefer canonicalized path when guessing tools from GHC path
packages: Cabal
prs: #7392
issues: #7390
description: {
Motivation
----------
Often times, the user facing `ghc` binary is
symlinked by other forces, such as the package manager,
tooling like ghcup etc. As such, the naming convention
(version suffix in particular) may not align with the
assumptions made in Cabal and it may find an incorrect ghc-pkg.
See:
- https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/7390
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/18807
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/-/issues/73
Solution
--------
Guessing the ghc-pkg path is already a hack and will be solved
more appropriately in the future, see
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4214
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/snippets/2710
These patches will solve the issue for future GHC versions.
As such, this patch provides a workaround for
older, already existing GHC versions by first always
following the symbolic link of the ghc binary (if it is one)
and prefering its target directory as the guess lookup
location.
Rationale
---------
The canonicalized path of the ghc binary usually points to the
bin/ directory unpacked from a bindist, which is less likely to be
tampered with by distributions and tools. As such, prefering the
canoncialized path should get us more robust results.
}
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