It's my understanding that Emacs runs the "structured-haskell-mode" binary
virtually every time you press a key in an Haskell buffer, and since
dynamically linked Haskell binaries take *much* longer to start up, switching
this particular package to statically linked libraries ought to result in a
performance boost.
These changes are needed to be able to run the system emulator (QEMU)
from Android Studio. In addition to the added dependencies,
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH had to be changed from --set to --prefix, so that libGL
is found (on NixOS).
The opam package manager relies on external solvers to determine package
management decisions it makes related to upgrades, new installations,
etc.
While, strictly speaking, an external solver is optional, aspcud is
highly recommended in documentation. Furthermore, even having a
relatively small number of packages installed quickly causes the limits
of the interal solver to be reached (before it times out).
Aspcud itself depends on two programs from the same suite: gringo, and
clasp.
On Darwin, Boost 1.55 (and thus Gringo) do not build, so we only support
Aspcud on non-Darwin platforms.
It's a long build and generally painful to split into smaller commits,
so I apologize for lumping many changes into one commit but this is far
easier.
There are still several outdated parts of the darwin stdenv but these
changes should bring us closer to the goal.
Fixes#18461
Enables previously manually disabled stackprotector and stackguard
randomization.
From https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511811:
If glibc is built with the --enable-stackguard-randomization option,
each application gets a random canary value (at runtime) from /dev/urandom.
If --enable-stackguard-randomization is absent, applications get a static
canary value of "0xff0a0000". This is very unfortunate, because the
attacker may be able to bypass the stack protection mechanism, by placing
those 4 bytes in the canary word, before the actual canary check is
performed (for example in memcpy-based buffer overflows).
