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27 Sep 2025
@bglgwyng:matrix.orgbglgwynghttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix#L74314:46:41
@bglgwyng:matrix.orgbglgwyng I need a way to specify build targets in Setup.hs's configure phase to fix it 14:47:05
@bglgwyng:matrix.orgbglgwyngBut it doesn't support unfortunately14:47:56
@teoc:matrix.orgteo (they/he)Haskell.nix seems to pass the name of the component to configure https://github.com/input-output-hk/haskell.nix/blob/751e1561c3fbc0a5cf136a689b70bbce567852a8/builder/comp-builder.nix#L23915:20:27
@alist:matrix.orgyliceee I'm getting
Error while expanding response file: /tmp/nix-shell.iCOh0S/ghci519500-0.rsp: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
in the LSP mode stderr at random times in a haskell project using cabal/nix/direnv/emacs (with LSP mode and envrc mode)
21:22:43
@alist:matrix.orgyliceeeim unable to consistently replicate. has anyone else seen this?21:23:22
@alist:matrix.orgyliceee * I'm getting
Error while expanding response file: /tmp/nix-shell.iCOh0S/ghci519500-0.rsp: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
in the LSP mode stderr at random times in a haskell project using cabal/nix/direnv/emacs (with envrc mode)
21:23:43
@alexfmpe:matrix.orgalexfmpeI've seen that a few times22:54:40
@alexfmpe:matrix.orgalexfmpeI ended up disabling direnv as it's been too unreliable for me22:56:12
@alexfmpe:matrix.orgalexfmpeAlso kept getting into stale states forcing me to rm .direnv after a lot of "how is this possible"22:57:08
28 Sep 2025
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@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterni bglgwyng: as far as I know, there is no way to specify the build targets at configure time 10:28:22
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterniThe package database is prepared by us and includes all dependencies Cabal reports to us when generating the expression. Not sure if you could influence this to trim down to specific targets, in any case cabal2nix does not support this at the moment.10:29:38
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterniinteresting that doesn't seem to be documented?10:31:01
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterni it would be nice if we could set testTargets and buildTargets at configure time already 10:31:28
@bglgwyng:matrix.orgbglgwyngIndeed I tried the same thing but it didn't work11:46:44
@bglgwyng:matrix.orgbglgwyngMaybe haskell.nix uses its own patched version?11:47:06
@bglgwyng:matrix.orgbglgwyngNo, it doesn't.13:20:35

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