[GHC] #14495: Relocatable GHC

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#14495: Relocatable GHC
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        Reporter:  bgamari           |                Owner:  angerman
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.4.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.2.1
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Old description:

> Moritz Angerman has recently been working on
> [[https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/pull/445|enabling]] relocatable
> builds of GHC in Hadrian. This will enable a user to extract a bindist
> anywhere in their file system and expect it to work. Moreover, it should
> simplify our installation procedure

New description:

 Moritz Angerman has recently been working on
 [[https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/pull/445|enabling]] relocatable
 builds of GHC in Hadrian. This will enable a user to extract a bindist
 anywhere in their file system and expect it to work. Moreover, it should
 simplify our installation procedure.

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Comment (by bgamari):

 This will need two Cabal patches,

 * https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4892
 * https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4874

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