Removes a smattering of, apparent, dead code

Using weeder to find unused definitions. There are a great many more,
but this was an attempt to be relatively conservative in the removal.

Fix #9694 Don't imply that Haddock docs exist, when warning not installed

* Remove knowledge about haskell-suite and hmake

These tools haven't existed for at least a decade.

* Update hashes in testsuite

* Changelog for PR #10912

* Keep knowledge about retired error codes in comment

testsuite: Supress stderr when running integration tests

Matthew Pickering authored 1 month ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 1 week ago

This fixes a problem where test output was leaking into GitHub Actions
results (#8419), making the output unnecessarily verbose and harder to read.

This makes the test output much cleaner while still preserving all the
diagnostic information when tests fail.

Also force the test to run sequentially, they fail if you try to run
them concurrently. I think that there are probably issues to do with
setting the working directory when using cabal-install as a library.

Fixes #8419

Allow building foreign libraries on FreeBSD

Fix call convention warnings for AArch64

Add module name validation in cabal check command

Matthew Pickering authored 1 month ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 1 week ago

This change ensures that Cabal warns about modules with names that would cause
portability issues, especially on Windows systems where certain names like "aux",
"con", "nul", etc. are reserved by the operating system.

Fixes #10295

Pass CXX and CXXFLAGS argument to ./configure scripts for build-type: Configure

Matthew Pickering authored 1 month ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 1 week ago

Since the compiler since ghc-9.4.8 requires a C++ toolchain, and that is
configured into the compiler --info, it makes sense to pass that
information onto the ./configure script.

The assumption that the C++ compiler is part of the toolchain is only
since ghc-9.4. Therefore, if no C++ compiler is found, then the options
won't be passed to the configure script.

For compilers older than 9.4, the C++ compiler will always be found as
it is configured into the settings file.

See ghc/ghc#25767 (comment 610831) for
some discussion about how this would be useful to implement
system-cxx-std-lib in userspace.

Fixes #10797

ci(mergify): upgrade configuration to current format

bootstrap: Update bootstrap plans for 9.2.8 to 9.12.2

Matthew Pickering authored 1 week ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 1 week ago

- Removed 9.0.* plan
- Updated plans for 9.2.8, 9.4.8, 9.6.7, 9.8.4, 9.10.1, 9.12.2

Bumped the index state to get new enough versions to support 9.12.2.

ci: Use ghc-9.12.2 and ghc-9.6.7

Matthew Pickering authored 2 weeks ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 1 week ago

Update the 9.12.* and 9.6.* compiler series to the latest versions.

* Add contributing instructions for gh users

Pull requests generated from `gh` erase the standard contributing template.

* Update CONTRIBUTING.md

Grammar

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* Drop the dead build-tool greencard

This tool does not build with GHC 7.10 and up, so can be considered
dead by now.

Cabal will now pretend it never knew about `greencard`.
I am not sure of the repercussions of this, e.g. when we want to
revise a package on hackage that uses `build-tools: greencard`, will
the parser or checker blow up on us?

* Changelog entry for PR #10908 (remove greencard)

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Take format specification history back to Cabal-1.0

Set <pkgname_datadir> to an absolute path 

Matthew Pickering authored 1 month ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 2 weeks ago

The test checks that if you change directory when running a test
executable that you can still access datafiles.

Matthew Pickering authored 1 month ago and Mikolaj Konarski committed 2 weeks ago

Ticket #10717 points out that the <pkgname>_datadir environment variable
should be set to an absolute path since the test executables may
change directory during their invocation.

This is easily fixed by using the absoluteWorkingDirLBI
function, which was introduced in 027bddfc,

Fixes #10717

Bump `cabal-version`

For `Cabal`, `Cabal-syntax`, `Cabal-hooks`, `cabal-install, and
`cabal-install-solver`.

Our support window for `cabal-version` is five years.
3.0 uses SPDX License List version 3.6 2019-07-10
3.4 uses SPDX License List version 3.9 2020-05-15

* Add release notes for 3.14.2.0 release

(cherry picked from commit 7bd6198c)

# Conflicts:
#	Cabal-hooks/CHANGELOG.md
#	cabal-install/changelog
#	changelog.d/pr-10493
#	changelog.d/pr-10546
#	changelog.d/pr-10828.md

* Remove redundant Other Changes header

Fixes #10685

(cherry picked from commit b2606fea)

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 822997d2)

* fix conflicts

* typos

* remove little changelog files that somehow Mergify failed to remove during cherry-pick

* add the missing new entry in cabal-install/ChangeLog.md

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Fix docs: extensions field was deprecated in Cabal 1.10, not 1.12

* Switched changelog from plaintext to markdown file

* Deleted old changelog file

* Renamed cabal-install/changelog.md to cabal-install/changeLog.md

* Modified cabal-install.cabal file for consistency

* Renamed cabal-install/changeLog.md to cabal-install/ChangeLog.md

* Changed name in cabal-install.cabal file

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Preflight checks

README.md and CHANGELOG.md are not _source_ files.

base16-bytestring >= 0.1.1 && < 1.1.0.0
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exporting FileLike and PathLike