srid/haskell-flake

Add `cabal check` to `checks`

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#50 opened on Dec 1, 2022

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Description

In arion I had a separate build with

                  checked = super.haskell.lib.overrideCabal pkg (o: {
                    postConfigure = ''${o.postConfigure or ""}
                      if ! ${hsuper.cabal-install}/bin/cabal check;
                      then
                        echo 1>&2 ERROR: cabal file is invalid. Above warnings were errors.
                        exit 1
                      fi
                    '';
                  });

I think we could touch the outputs and exit 0 to speed this up. Doing it in runCommand would be fragile. This should probably call Setup.hs instead of cabal-install.

Running it as part of the main build isn't ideal because the check may be more strict than necessary. I think it should only run in CI.

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Inspect the existing checks in the flake module and implement a new check using Setup.hs or cabal install.
Tech stack
haskell
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build systemdevops
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