Statically link binary hlint distributions

[phadej]

From haskell-CI/haskell-ci#666

One thing that I discovered when trying out the hlint-3.6.1 bindist is that dynamically links against the glibc version provided by Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy). This will not work if you run hlint-3.6.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Bionic),

For that reason, I build cabal-docspec and cabal-plan etc on alpine linux with --enable-executable-static (see e.g. https://github.com/haskell-hvr/cabal-plan/blob/master/Makefile)

[benz0li]

If my multi-arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8) glcr.b-data.ch/ghc/ghc-musl docker image was used to build hlint, this project could provide statically linked binaries for both Linux/x86_64 and Linux/AArch64.

Cross references:

• https://github.com/benz0li/ghc-musl
• Can Binary Releases be Done for aarch64 and armv7h jgm/pandoc#5450 (comment)
• Provide statically linked binary for Linux/AArch64 commercialhaskell/stack#6142
  • Fix #6142 Build statically-linked Linux/Aarch64 Stack commercialhaskell/stack#6212

[ndmitchell]

Happy to take patches to https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml. I'm not a Linux user, but this does sound desirable.

[benz0li]

I'm not a Linux user

I am not a GitHub user 😉.

[benz0li]

I build my own multi-arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8) docker images containing the statically linked hlint executable at /usr/local now.

This, to copy the latest executable from said docker images into my multi-arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8) GHC musl Dev Containers.