Package tests could read GHC version from `dist/setup-config`
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Description
Currently, when running the package tests with a non-default version of GHC, it's necessary to specify the `GHC` environment variable to point at whatever you want to be using.
It's probably more sensible to instead read the GHC version from the configuration information, where possible – note that we already rely on the inplace package conf being there, so this isn't too much more to ask.
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