[Nix-dev] HaskellNG and taffybar

[Kirill Elagin]

It might even be a good idea to send this patch to Dyre upstream. I doubt
they really want to use GHC path stored during compilation for _dynamic_
reconfiguration.

On Mon Feb 23 2015 at 0:18:58 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the author of the issue I pointed out is correct in saying that they
> use Dyre which in turn uses ghc-paths. I checked ghc-paths and I believe
> what they do is store the path to GHC _they were compiled with_.
>
> So errr... Looks like we are stuck in a loop. I guess your best bet is to
> patch Dyre not to use ghc-paths.
>
> On Mon Feb 23 2015 at 23:59:51 Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2015-02-23 22:55 GMT+03:00 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Does XMonad work in your case?
>>> Can you import `System.Taffybar` in `ghci`?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, xmonad works and I can import `System.Taffybar` in ghci.
>>
>>
>> Might it be that, unlike XMonad, they do something more complicated to
>>> invoke GHC? I didn’t check the source, but looks like they do.
>>> Are you running this on a non-NixOS distro? In that case, the issue
>>> <https://github.com/simonmar/ghc-paths/issues/4> probably explains
>>> what’s going
>>>
>>
>> I'm using Nixos.
>> That's what they are doing. [1]
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/travitch/taffybar/blob/master/src/System/
>> Taffybar.hs#L204
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Arseniy Seroka
>>
>
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