Relocatable GHC

Moritz Angerman has recently been working on 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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This will need two Cabal patches,

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

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This ticket won't be resolved in 8.4; remilestoning for 8.6. Do holler if you are affected by this or would otherwise like to work on it.

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This actually (hopefully) will make it for 8.4. Alp is currently working on this.

@angerman Do we agree that we're done with this? (in which case we can close)

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It should be fixed. Closing.

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