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Before this patch, the global package database was always assumed to be
in libdir </> package.conf.d.

This causes issues in GHC's build system because there are sometimes
situations where the package database you need to use is not located in
the same place as the settings file.

* The stage1 compiler needs to use stage1 libraries, so we should set
  "Global Package DB" for the stage1 compiler to the stage1 package
  database.
* Stage 2 cross compilers need to use stage2 libraries, so likewise, we
  should set the package database path to `_build/stage2/lib/`

* The normal situation is where the stage2 compiler uses stage1
  libraries. Then everything lines up.

* When installing we have rearranged everything so that the settings
  file and package database line up properly, so then everything should
  continue to work as before. In this case we set the relative package
  db path to `package.conf.d`, so it resolves the same as before.

* ghc-pkg needs to be modified as well to look in the settings file fo
  the package database rather than assuming the global package database
  location relative to the lib folder.

* Cabal/cabal-install will work correctly because they query the global
  package database using `--print-global-package-db`.

A reasonable question is why not generate the "right" settings files in
the right places in GHC's build system. In order to do this you would
need to engineer wrappers for all executables to point to a specific
libdir. There are also situations where the same package db is used by
two different compilers with two different settings files (think stage2
cross compiler and stage3 compiler).

In short, this 10 line patch allows for some reasonable simplifications
in Hadrian at very little cost to anything else.

Fixes #24502
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