Matthew Pickering

I found this problem because GHC uses linker scripts in order to avoid running into long command line issues.

Thanks @fulcanelly @rui314 Perhaps either of you could advise about how other projects detect which linker is going to be used? Do they also parse the version string or is...

Like I said, I'm not familar with the internals so I can't comment what kinds of errors are likely to happen. I guess my point is that using the API...

Works with 8.0.2 and HEAD for me.

I think `3.12` is probably right as that fits in with around when I made the project in 2015. I don't use stack though and as you can probably see,...

I can't reproduce this on my machine.

Don't think there is really anything to be done here. There isn't enough information to decide which ones are originally used. The same thing happens for tabs and trailing whitespace,...

Using `nix-build` for GHC development would not be very ergonomic as you would end up rebuilding the whole compiler every time you made a change. I say, close this as...

No, I don't think so because you have to rebuild if anything about stage1 changes. See: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190731-hadrian-cloud-builds.html

Does this actually work? I tried to update my nixpkgs pin with ``` niv update nixpkgs -a rev=abcde ``` and the change was not reflected in the `sources.json` file.