John J Foerch <jjfoe...@earthlink.net> writes: > Hello, > > I'm seeing a problem with the hackage importer with the git-annex > package: > > $ guix import hackage git-annex > Syntax error: unexpected token : custom-setup (at line 316, column 0) > Syntax error: unexpected end of input > guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'git-annex' > > git-annex.cabal is here: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex-6.20160808/git-annex.cabal > > Is it a bug in the importer?
Hi, the hackage importer only support packages using 'Build-type' of type 'Simple'. The packages in question uses a 'Build-type' of type 'Custom'. See https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#package-descriptions I've not studied the variant 'Custom' of 'Build-type', so I could be wrong. But, looking at the 'git-annex' Cabal file the only offending part is the section starting with the header 'custom-setup' on line 316. Making the parser recognize this type of section should not be too difficult. If you are interested, take a look at the file 'guix/build/cabal.scm', line 149. That's where we define the tokens for the supported section types and where a new section of type 'custom-build' would have to be added (with related functions). Regards, Fede
