[arch-haskell] Using makeahpkg

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alessandro Pezzoni
<alessandro_pezzoni at lavabit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:02:07AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Alessandro Pezzoni
>> <alessandro_pezzoni at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Then I don't know what the problem is exactly.  What does the build
>> log file say? (/home/bexie/my-habs/x86_64-chroot/build/build)
>
> There doesn't seem to be any log in that directory:
>
> $ls /home/bexie/my-habs/x86_64-chroot/build/build
> PKGBUILD  haskell-data-accessor.install

Can you jump into the chroot manually and build?

Something like

$ sudo mkarchroot -r /bin/bash /path/to/chroot
# cd /build
# makepkg --asroot

/M

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