[arch-haskell] Build error with lekash on archlinux when using cabal2arch

[Mathew de Detrich]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 08:45 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:35, Mathew de Detrich <deteego at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 07:49 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:16:39PM +1000, Mathew de Detrich wrote:
> >> > Oh no, I understood that perfectly. Technically speaking its an
> >> > issue with the cabal package file, although I have no idea if this
> >> > is something cabal package maintainers should be responsible for or
> >> > if this is a side effect of PKGBUILD supporting profiling
> >>
> >> Ah, good, English isn't my native tongue so I'm aware I sometimes
> >> express myself clumsily.
> >>
> >> <rant>
> >> IMNSHO the Leksah Cabal file clearly is the culprit here.  I
> >> personally think that Cabal files uploaded to Hackage shouldn't turn
> >> on anything like profiling, shared libs etc.  They should configure
> >> the bare minimum.  It should be left to packagers (e.g. ArchHaskell)
> >> to turn on stuff like profiling and shared libs if that's suitable.
> >> </rant>
> >>
> >> /M
> >>
> >
> > On this note, when removing the profiling options, the leksah package
> > still fails to build due to this error
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/656. It probably has
> > something to do with the fact that I had to install haddock through
> > cabal2arch to build leksah (and its components) in the first place due
> > to GHC only providing a haskell binary (and there being no haddock
> > package on AUR)
> >
> > Im not going to add a comment to the ticket above (yet) because I am not
> > sure if its an issue due to me installing haddock as I have done
> 
> Fair enough.  You may also be interested in this Arch bug on GHC:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17875
> 
> /M
> 

Yup, I am already aware of that. If fixing that bug resolves this issue,
then thats great. Just notifying you incase its something else