[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] [GHC] #5047: ghc fails to build if HOME is not seth

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#5047: ghc fails to build if HOME is not seth
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    Reporter:  nomeata           |       Owner:                     
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new                
    Priority:  normal            |   Component:  Compiler           
     Version:  7.0.2             |    Keywords:                     
    Testcase:                    |   Blockedby:                     
          Os:  Linux             |    Blocking:                     
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  Building GHC failed
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 Hi,

 some Debian build daemons do not set $HOME, to ensure that package builds
 do not modify that. ghc 7.0.2 fails to build in that case:

 Here is an example build log:
 https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=ghc&arch=powerpc&ver=7.0.2-5&stamp=1300976974&file=log&as=raw
 ending with
 {{{
 "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure --with-ghc="/usr/bin/ghc" --with-ghc-
 pkg="/usr/bin/ghc-pkg" --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc" --configure-option
 =--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc" --package-db=/build/buildd-ghc_7.0.2-5-powerpc-
 bRWe6q/ghc-7.0.2/libraries bootstrapping.conf --enable-library-profiling
 --enable-library-or-ghci --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -fno-stack-protector
 " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="   " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="   "
 --constraint "Cabal == 1.10.1.0" --constraint "hpc == 0.5.0.6"
 --constraint "extensible-exceptions == 0.1.1.2" --constraint "ghc-binary
 == 0.5.0.2" --constraint "bin-package-db == 0.0.0.0" -- dist-boot
 libraries/Cabal
 ghc-cabal: HOME: does not exist
 make[2]: *** [libraries/Cabal/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1
 }}}

 The bug might be in the cabal-install code.

 Thanks,
 Joachim

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