{ stdenv, fetchurl, ghc, perl, gmp, ncurses }:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  version = "7.7";
  name = "ghc-${version}";

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/${name}-src.tar.bz2";
    sha256 = "1f4grj1lw25vb5drn4sn8fc1as3hwhk8dl659spi5fnbrs5k4wgb";
  };

  buildInputs = [ ghc perl gmp ncurses ];

  enableParallelBuilding = true;

  buildMK = ''
    libraries/integer-gmp_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-gmp-libraries="${gmp}/lib"
    libraries/integer-gmp_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-gmp-includes="${gmp}/include"
    DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = NO
  '';

  # The tarball errorneously contains an executable that doesn't work in
  # Nix. Deleting it will cause the program to be re-built locally.
  postUnpack = ''
    rm -v $sourceRoot/libraries/integer-gmp/cbits/mkGmpDerivedConstants
  '';

  preConfigure = ''
    echo "${buildMK}" > mk/build.mk
    sed -i -e 's|-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk||' configure
  '';

  configureFlags=[
    "--with-gcc=${stdenv.gcc}/bin/gcc"
  ];

  # required, because otherwise all symbols from HSffi.o are stripped, and
  # that in turn causes GHCi to abort
  stripDebugFlags=["-S" "--keep-file-symbols"];

  meta = {
    homepage = "http://haskell.org/ghc";
    description = "The Glasgow Haskell Compiler";
    maintainers = [
      stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber
      stdenv.lib.maintainers.andres
      stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons
    ];
    inherit (ghc.meta) license platforms;
  };

}