When depending on `ghc` on 9.4: "The option `packages.Cabal.package.identifier.name' is used but not defined"

[amesgen]

Describe the bug

In a trivial hello world project with GHC 9.4 (ghc944 concretely), depending on the ghc library via build-depends causes evaluation to fail:

error: The option `packages.Cabal.package.identifier.name' is used but not defined.

Full trace

error:
       … while evaluating the attribute 'buildInputs' of the derivation 'stuff-exe-stuff-0.1.0.0'

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:286:7:

          285|     // (lib.optionalAttrs (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
          286|       name =
             |       ^
          287|         let

       … while evaluating the attribute 'SETUP_HS' of the derivation 'ghc-lib-ghc-9.4.4'

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:286:7:

          285|     // (lib.optionalAttrs (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
          286|       name =
             |       ^
          287|         let

       … while evaluating the attribute 'buildPhase' of the derivation 'ghc-9.4.4-setup'

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:286:7:

          285|     // (lib.optionalAttrs (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
          286|       name =
             |       ^
          287|         let

       … while evaluating call site

       at /nix/store/2kmdzja8283zmm43xw2fgsynl6ki9s0f-source/builder/setup-builder.nix:22:23:

           21|
           22|   includeGhcPackage = lib.any (p: p.identifier.name == "ghc") component.depends;
             |                       ^
           23|

       … while calling anonymous lambda

       at /nix/store/2kmdzja8283zmm43xw2fgsynl6ki9s0f-source/builder/setup-builder.nix:22:32:

           21|
           22|   includeGhcPackage = lib.any (p: p.identifier.name == "ghc") component.depends;
             |                                ^
           23|

       … while evaluating call site

       at «none»:0: (source not available)

       … while calling 'g'

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/lib/attrsets.nix:535:19:

          534|           g =
          535|             name: value:
             |                   ^
          536|             if isAttrs value && cond value

       … while evaluating call site

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/lib/attrsets.nix:538:20:

          537|               then recurse (path ++ [name]) value
          538|               else f (path ++ [name]) value;
             |                    ^
          539|         in mapAttrs g;

       … while calling anonymous lambda

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/lib/modules.nix:270:72:

          269|           # For definitions that have an associated option
          270|           declaredConfig = mapAttrsRecursiveCond (v: ! isOption v) (_: v: v.value) options;
             |                                                                        ^
          271|

       … while evaluating the attribute 'value'

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/lib/modules.nix:728:9:

          727|     in warnDeprecation opt //
          728|       { value = builtins.addErrorContext "while evaluating the option `${showOption loc}':" value;
             |         ^
          729|         inherit (res.defsFinal') highestPrio;

       … while evaluating the option `packages.Cabal.package.identifier.name':

       … while evaluating the attribute 'mergedValue'

       at /nix/store/3qqa3phclva9vjs8zv4ygg9pnadbb6nk-source/lib/modules.nix:763:5:

          762|     # Type-check the remaining definitions, and merge them. Or throw if no definitions.
          763|     mergedValue =
             |     ^
          764|       if isDefined then

       error: The option `packages.Cabal.package.identifier.name' is used but not defined.

Steps To Reproduce

MRE: https://github.com/amesgen/stuff/tree/haskell.nix-ghc94-weirdness

 $ nix path-info --derivation github:amesgen/stuff/haskell.nix-ghc94-weirdness
trace: No index state specified for haskell-project, using the latest index state that we know about (2023-02-14T00:00:00Z)!
trace: No index state specified for alex, using the latest index state that we know about (2023-02-14T00:00:00Z)!
trace: No index state specified for happy, using the latest index state that we know about (2023-02-14T00:00:00Z)!
error: The option `packages.Cabal.package.identifier.name' is used but not defined.

Expected behavior

It should compile just fine, as it does on e.g. GHC 9.2.

Additional context

System: x86_64-linux

[cumber]

Just confirming this is still an issue

[amesgen]

Just to mention a workaround: Adding Cabal somewhere to the build plan fixes the issue. Seems related to #1836, in particular https://github.com/input-output-hk/haskell.nix/issues/1836#issuecomment-1422269562.

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[amesgen]

I think this is no longer an issue.