[arch-haskell] ghc 7.4.1 in a temporary repo

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Adrien Haxaire wrote:
> On 18/02/2012 23:51, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> I'd recommend you fetch the latest changes I've made to the git repo.
>> There's a new pkgrel of GHC itself (7.4.1-2) as well as some fixes to
>> the patches.  Some extra instructions:
>> 
>> - After creating all the PKGBUILDs it's necessary to adjust the
>>   dependency on GHC (unless you modify `cblrepo` and build a new
>>   version of it), e.g. by executing something like
>> 
>>     for f in */PKGBUILD; do
>>       sed -e 's/\(.*\)ghc=7\.4\.1-1\(.*\)/\1ghc=7.4.1-2\2/' -i $f
>>     done
>> 
>> - It's not possible to record dependencies on tools in Cabal files,
>>   instead that is done in some of the patches.  Unfortunately this
>>   means that `clbrepo` can't produce a build order that is 100%
>>   guaranteed to work; a bit of manual tweaking of the ,,build-order
>>   file may be necessary.  I think the only tools in question are
>>   `alex`, `happy` and `gtk2hs-buildtools`.
>> 
>> Good luck ;)
> 
> Et voilà!
> 
> I have pulled your changes to the patches then rebuilt all. I have
> uploaded them at the same location.

Excellent, I'll prepare a repo with those packages during the day.

> I did not need to tweak the ,,build-order file.

Ah, then you were lucky :)

> By the way, what happens if I want to build it while being root (or
> under a sudo bash)? I had to type in me password several times
> because I did not dare try it being root. Do you have a trick to
> avoid typing it?

Yeah, it's a bit unfortunate that we have to work with chroot, which
requires root access.  I always configure a timeout for sudo so I
don't have to enter my password on *every* invocation.  For larger
builds, like all of [haskell] for instance, I actually configure sudo
to not require a password.  Those are the only ways I know of avoiding
typing the password several times.

/M

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