[arch-haskell] ghc-vis

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:23:58AM -0600, stef204 wrote:
> 
> 
> 15.10.2015, 04:26, "Magnus Therning" <magnus at therning.org>:
> 
> >>  How would I go about building the Arch package before installing
> >>  it...?
> >
> > 1. clone <https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/>
> > 2. install `cblrepo` from [haskell-core]
> > 3. run `cblrepo sync`
> > 4. move into the `habs` repo and run `cblrepo add <pkg,ver> ...` to add
> >    packages (one or many at once)
> > 5. run `cblrepo pkgbuild <pkgs>` to generate source packages for the
> >    packages you added
> > 6. build all packages, in order (you can use `cblrepo build` to generate
> >    a good build order)
> > 7. install your new packages
> >
> >>  > I've lately had a closer look at `stack` (available in
> >>  > [haskell-core] as `haskell-stack-bin`) and if ghc-vis produces one
> >>  > or more binaries (i.e. no libs that you are interested in) then it
> >>  > might be a good way to build it.
> >>  >
> >>
> >>  Can you please explain in more detail what you mean by that exactly?
> >>  How would I go about it?
> >>  1) pacman -S haskell-stack-bin
> >>  2) then? How do I find out if "ghc-vis produces one or more binaries"?
> >
> > I'd start with `stack unpack ghc-vis`, then `stack init --resolver
> > ghc-7.8` and see where that leads.
> >
> 
> Thanks Magnus, much appreciated.
> I have installed cblrepo, have read
> <https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo> and will run through the above
> steps,
> Hope you don't mind if I follow-up on this thread if I run into
> problems I cannot solve with cblrepo.

That's fine, of course.  I'm not sure if I got it right though, but does
ghc-vis require ghc 7.8?  In that case you'll only have limited success
with cblrepo I'm afraid.

/M

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