[Haskell-cafe] Issues with hsql-sqllite build; errors from the hackage download

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:05 -0500, bbrown wrote:
> There seems to be an issue with the hsql-sqlite3.  Anyone have a fix.  Should
> I use what is from darcs?

HSQL is currently unmaintained. Frederik Eaton was considering taking it
over: http://www.nabble.com/HSQL-defunct--td14978532.html

Gentoo has a fix:
http://haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/dev-haskell/hsql-sqlite/hsql-sqlite-1.7.ebuild
The code in src_unpack() is replacing the Setup.hs with a default copy
and then adding 'extra-libraries: sqlite3' to the .cabal file. Pretty
straightforward. This does assume that you have sqlite3 installed in the
default global location.

You may also like to consider alternatives like HDBC-sqlite3.

Duncan