Add a CI job validating against GHC's JavaScript backend - #12294
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fix: #12293
Known limitations (upstream, not Cabal bugs)
Note
These are the reasons the draft waits for GHC 9.12.5 / 9.14.2 / 10.0.
Each item is a GHC-side gap that is already known/fixed upstream; none of
them are regressions introduced here.
cabal-testsuitecannot run on the JS target — it executes every testscript inside a GHCi session (
Test.Cabal.Server), and the 9.12.2 crossbindist is "not built for interactive use". This includes the new
PackageTests/JS/*tests (they areskipUnlessJavaScript, so native CIruns keep skipping them).
cabal-installunit tests fail to load —hackage-securityusesStaticPointers, and the JS backend mis-links static pointer tables(
ReferenceError: h$$... is not definedat load time). The JS-builtcabalexecutable itself links and runs fine.no-thunks-testneedsunpackClosure#— introspection primop notprovided by the JS backend.
rpmvercmpsuite needs a C FFI routine — its reference implementationis C; bridging it through the emscripten heap would defeat the purpose of
the cross-check.
h$fchmodat,h$CLOCK_*,h$getNumberOfProcessors,cryptohash-sha256FFI) — tracked in thepolyfills file, removable when the runtime catches up.
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