maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 244556] lang/ghc: ghc-pkg expects libncursesw.so.8 on -CURRENT

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Bug 244556: lang/ghc: ghc-pkg expects libncursesw.so.8 on -CURRENT
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244556



--- Description ---
After libncursesw.so.8 recently became libncursesw.so.9 in -CURRENT, ghc-pkg
started to complain:

Installing library in
/construction/xports/lang/ghc/work/ghc-8.6.5-boot/lib/ghc-8.6.5/ghc-8.6.5
"/construction/xports/lang/ghc/work/ghc-8.6.5-boot/lib/ghc-8.6.5/bin/ghc-pkg"
--force --global-package-db
"/construction/xports/lang/ghc/work/ghc-8.6.5-boot/lib/ghc-8.6.5/package.conf.d
"
update rts/dist/package.conf.install
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncursesw.so.8" not found, required by "ghc-pkg"

The above is from an attempt at using ports-mgmt/synth to build lang/ghc. We
might need new bootstrappers for -CURRENT.