[arch-haskell] What does "failed to finalize package" mean?

[Richard Wallace]

*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 <magnus at 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
>
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