[arch-haskell] Using makeahpkg

Alessandro Pezzoni alessandro_pezzoni at lavabit.com
Sat Oct 12 07:40:20 UTC 2013


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

Alessandro





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