Problem with stack upgrade

[FranklinChen]

I am using an ancient Mac OS X laptop where the Stack dependency cryptonite requires me to pass a custom flag to Cabal haskell-crypto/cryptonite#21 but I don't know how to pass this flag to stack upgrade. (Note that this laptop is sufficiently old that I cannot just download and use the prebuilt binary for Stack for more modern OS X, but have to build Stack from source.) Without the flag, I cannot do stack upgrade.

How do I hook in the config into stack upgrade?

  cryptonite:
    support_aesni: false

[luigy]

hmm I don't think there is support for that but I always build my stack executable from repo clone and another alternative would also be to use stack unpack:

stack unpack stack-0.1.10.0
cd stack-0.1.10.0
stack install --flag cryptonite:-support_aesni

you wouldn't have to use package version to have it always download latest (ala stack upgrade) but currenlty stack would pick up deprecated versions #1391

[mgsloan]

It wouldn't be too strange to add the build options to upgrade. At once, I like that stack upgrade --help is so simple. Adding all the build options would make it more complicated.

I'm thinking that for this (hopefully) rare case, @luigy's solution is sufficient. So, closing as wontfix.

[FranklinChen]

Yeah, this is a rare case. I've been building from source this whole time so it's not a showstopper that stack upgrade.

[FranklinChen]

For reference, in case anyone needs a bootstrapped stack executable for old Mac OS X, I put one up: https://github.com/FranklinChen/haskell-stack-for-old-mac-os-x