Hi, thanks for the suggestions, and the links. I hadn't found those pages yet.
I should clarify that I have lots of experience building ghc, and I also have some limited experience building .deb packages. My problem was specifically with building a .deb for ghc. Just a quick note: I can browse the darcs repo over http, but when I try to clone it, darcs wants a password. - Philip On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Philip. > > Excerpts from Philip Weaver's message of Seg Jan 24 03:55:46 -0200 2011: > (...) > > I have been trying to find documentation for building ghc deb packages, > but > > with no luck. All I have to work with right now is the > haskell-devscripts > > package, but I haven't yet been able to get a successful build. It would > be > > so helpful if anyone could provide a script that demonstrates how they > > perform their builds of ghc, or the configuration files for > > dpkg-buildpackage (the ones in the "debian" directory that gets created > by > > dh_make), or point me to a webpage with any useful information. > > Building GHC is no different than building any other Debian package. Maybe > you > should start your study with how to build Debian packages. The most recent > version of the debian/ directory from the ghc package is in > http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/ghc . > > Greetings! > (...) >
