[arch-haskell] Using makeahpkg

[Alessandro Pezzoni]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:54:36AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Alessandro Pezzoni
> <alessandro_pezzoni at lavabit.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to use the 'makehapkg' script to build Haskell packages, as
> > suggested by Magnus Therning, but I'm having some issues with it. Though
> > it works fine for packages without dependencies other than ghc, like
> > haskell-xdg-basedir (not currently in habs), it fails to install extra
> > dependencies prior to building, e.g.:
> >
> > $./makeahpkg haskell-data-accessor
> > [...]
> > ==> Making package: haskell-data-accessor 0.2.2.2-1 (Wed Jul 25 12:14:10
> > UTC 2012)
> > ==> Checking runtime dependencies...
> > ==> Installing missing dependencies...
> > sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?
> > ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
> > ==> ERROR: Build failed, check /home/bexie/my-habs/x86_64-chroot/build/build
> >
> > As I don't have any kind of experience with chroots I'm quite at a loss
> > here. Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> First run `./makeahpkg -h` to familiarise yourself with its options.
> Then make sure you have `sudo` and `devtools` installed (those are the
> only required packages I can remember off the top of my head).

I already had 'sudo' and 'devtools' installed and read the output of
'./makehapkg -h', but that really didn't help in this case.