*sigh* I completely missed those last few lines of the gtk2hs-buildtools cabal file. Thanks.
I wonder if the error message cblrepo gives could include missing dependencies, so we wouldn't be left guessing. Rich On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:56:02PM -0700, Richard Wallace wrote: > > I'm trying to add gtk2hs-buildtools and am getting that error > > > > $ cblrepo add gtk2hs-buildtools,0.12.5.2 > > $ cblrepo pkgbuild --ghc-version 7.8.2-1 > > Failed to finalize package: gtk2hs-buildtools > > > > In digging into the source, it looks like this means a dependency > > was not able to be found. But all the things that gtk2hs-buildtools > > depends on are provided by ghc, so I'm a bit at a loss. Any idea > > what is going on? > > Yes, that sounds right to me. > > I suspect it's the following interesting combination that's causing > it: > > 1. When adding you use the standard ghc (which I think still is 7.6 > on the latest release of `cblrepo`). > 2. When building the package you tell `cblrepo` to use Ghc 7.8.2 > 3. The gtk2hs-buildtools.cabal file contains the following: > > if impl(ghc >= 7.7) > build-depends: hashtables > > I think this combination means that your database doesn't record the > dependency on hashtables, but on generating the PKGBUILD the > dependency appears. > > I really ought to get around to making a new release of `cblrepo`! > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with > millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural > integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. > -- Alan Kay > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > arch-haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell > >
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