id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc
22	platform tarball does not work out of the box on NixOS	kosmikus	duncan	"[I don't really expect this to be fixed, but want to provide the information here in order to preserve it.]

The problem is that on NixOS, none of the libraries that the Haskell Platform expects
(zlib, OpenGL/mesa just to name a few) are in standard paths. One sensible option if a
user wants to make a user install is that a user has them in a local profile, so includes
would be in $HOME/.nix-profile/include and libs in $HOME/.nix-profile/lib.

The configure script can be made to work by setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to make use of these
dirs. However, the actual build process invokes Cabal, and Cabal has to pass these flags to
the individual packages via --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs, and I can't see a
way to make that happen.
"	defect	new	minor	Blue Sky	Generic source tarball