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Niklas Hambüchen
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In the invocation of `cabal configure`, `--ghc-pkg-option=--global-package-db` was already given correctly to tell `stage0/bin/ghc-pkg` that it should use the package DB in `stage1/`. However, `ghc` needs to be given this information as well, not only `ghc-pkg`! Until now that was not the case; the package DB in `stage0` was given to `ghc` instead. This was wrong, because there is no binary compatibility guarantee that says that the `stage0` DB's `package.cache` (which is written by the stage0 == system-provided ghc-pkg) can be deserialised by the `ghc-pkg` from the source code tree. As a result, when trying to add fields to `InstalledPackageInfo` that get serialised into / deserialised from the `package.cache`, errors like _build/stage0/lib/package.conf.d/package.cache: GHC.PackageDb.readPackageDb: inappropriate type (Not a valid Unicode code point!) would appear. This was because the `stage0/bin/ghc would try to deserialise the newly added fields from `_build/stage0/lib/package.conf.d/package.cache`, but they were not in there because the system `ghc-pkg` doesn't know about them and thus didn't write them there. It would try to do that because any GHC by default tries to read the global package db in `../lib/package.conf.d/package.cache`. For `stage0/bin/ghc` that *can never work* as explained above, so we must disable this default via `-no-global-package-db` and give it the correct package DB explicitly. This is the same problem as #16534, and the same fix as in MR !780 (but in another context; that one was for developers trying out the `stage0/bin/ghc` == `_build/ghc-stage1` interactively, while this fix is for a `cabal configure` invocation). I also noticed that the fix for #16534 forgot to pass `-no-global-package-db`, and have fixed that in this commit as well. It only worked until now because nobody tried to add a new ghc-pkg `.conf` field since the introduction of Hadrian.