No way to specify binaries needed by tests

[nc6]

I've been testing out haskell.nix on a project here. The unit tests require that various binaries from coreutils are present, but there's no way to specify packages which should be available during testing. The build-tools setting does not satisfy this:

        packages.funflow.components.tests.unit-tests = {
          build-tools = [pkgs.coreutils];
        }

[hamishmack]

Try:

packages.funflow.components.tests.unit-tests.testWrapper = "PATH=${pkgs.coreutils}/bin:$PATH";

[hamishmack]

I have actually been having some success using build-tools as you suggested here. I was able to get all the tests we expected to pass working in nix here. I wonder if maybe I am using a newer version of haskell.nix. I am using the hkm/asterius-dev-5 branch, but I don't think it has anything in that would affect how tests are run.

[rvl]

This works for me also. I am wondering if it's because you have two test-suite components and both of them need coreutils?

If you put build-tools: coreutils into the cabal file then stack-to-nix will generate the dependency for you. (edit: although that might look redundant because most distros have coreutils installed).

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