Update packages from 23.05 to 23.11

[jonathanlking]

Updates nixpkgs to 23.11.

• nix build --impure --expr '(import ./survey { useArchiveFilesForTemplateHaskell = true; }).working'
• nix build --impure --expr '(import ./survey { }).working'

Completely succeed.

• nix build --impure --expr '(import ./survey { compiler = "ghc963"; }).working' succeeds except for:
  • ShellCheck and stack (transitively) fail to build due to mtl < 2.3.
  • darcs fails due to unix <2.8.

[jonathanlking]

I have started with your static-haskell-nix-nixos-23.05 branch, which included the following patches:

• nh2/nixpkgs@9e49f8f1f37b Keep, not merged
• nh2/nixpkgs@40d2db0cee0e merged in bzip2, zstd: Add enableStatic option NixOS/nixpkgs#243161
• nh2/nixpkgs@75378f1bf479 merged in bzip2, zstd: Add enableStatic option NixOS/nixpkgs#243161
• nh2/nixpkgs@c7e42e02e837 merged in gitea: Fix postPatch command; add coreutils to PATH NixOS/nixpkgs#236700
• nh2/nixpkgs@065f8ab1aeb3 merged in gitea: Fix postPatch command; add coreutils to PATH NixOS/nixpkgs#236700

I then picked the current nixos-23.11 (NixOS/nixpkgs@32f6357) and cherry-picked nh2/nixpkgs@9e49f8f1f37b on top.

I have a static-haskell-nix-nixos-23.11 branch on my fork, which you could just copy over to yours if you're happy with these changes — I find it a bit odd that GitHub already allows accessing the archive under your fork but 🤷‍♂️

[jonathanlking]

I have also included NixOS/nixpkgs#278099 so that p11-kit (which is a dependency of many things, including ghc) builds on single-user install non-NixOS systems.

[jonathanlking]

Unfortunately the GHC 9.6 releases with enableShared = false, which is set through useArchiveFilesForTemplateHaskell = true, are still broken.
I think this could be the same issue as NixOS/nixpkgs#208959 (comment)?

$ nix build --impure --expr '(import ./survey { compiler = "ghc963"; useArchiveFilesForTemplateHaskell = true; }).haskellPackages.ghc'
...
/---------------------------------------------------------\
| Successfully built program 'hp2ps' (Stage1).            |
| Executable: _build/stage1/bin/hp2ps                     |
| Program synopsis: Heap Profile to PostScript converter. |
\---------------------------------------------------------/
| Run Ghc CompileHs Stage1: libraries/ghc-bignum/src/GHC/Num/Backend/Native.hs => _build/stage1/libraries/ghc-bignum/build/GHC/Num/Backend/Native.p_o
| Copy package 'ghc-prim'
# cabal-copy (for _build/stage1/lib/package.conf.d/ghc-prim-0.10.0.conf)
inished in 8m29s^GError, rule finished running but did not produce file:
  _build/stage1/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-9.6.3/libHSrts-1.0.2-ghc9.6.3.so
Build failed.

GHC 9.8.1 does seem to work though, i.e. nix build --impure --expr '(import ./survey { compiler = "ghc981"; useArchiveFilesForTemplateHaskell = true; }).haskellPackages.ghc'.

[jonathanlking]

I copied this comment wholesale from PostgREST too.
I have no reason to doubt it (and have been running software in production with no issues), but I'm not an expert on this.

[domenkozar]

cc @nh2

[nh2]

Relating to #125 (comment)

This still fails on NixOS 24.05 with ghc965:

... -A haskellPackages.hello --arg useArchiveFilesForTemplateHaskell true

fails with:

ghc-musl> Finished in 7m31sError, rule finished running but did not produce file:
ghc-musl>   _build/stage1/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-9.6.5/libHSrts-1.0.2-ghc9.6.5.so

[nh2]

This still fails on NixOS 24.05 with ghc965:

Fixed by @NorfairKing's patch in NixOS/nixpkgs#317175

We cherry-picked it onto the nixos-24.05 branch