[Haskell-cafe] Build base with stack

[Kristen Kozak]

On Fri, January 6, 2017 1:56 am, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> Excerpts from Robin Palotai's message of 2017-01-05 15:42:09 +0100:
>
>> Thanks for the pointer Edward, new-build seems nice. It could build
>> base indeed!
>>
>> Just a note - with the patch, if I had "tests: True" in cabal.project,
>> I
>> got an assertion for pkgStanzasEnabled `Set.isSubsetOf`
>> pkgStanzasAvailable from Distribution/Client/ProjectPlanning.hs. Maybe
>> WAI.
>>
>
> OK, worth reporting as a bug on Cabal tracker if you have time.
>
>
>> Do you think the patch could make it upstream in a form of some flag?
>> --no-require-install=x,y or so.
>>
>
> Yes, I think this would make sense!

There is a related issue at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/3987. 
GHCJS also needs a flag for building the base libraries.

-Kristen