Broken packages on hackage

[Don Stewart]

I managed to build dataenc, so whatever the problem was, it was
temporary. Sorry for the false positive.

-- Don

magnus:
>    I see dataenc is in the list below, which I found a bit surprising since
>    it does indeed build fine with the split up base package.  However, when I
>    hacked its cabal file I thought it made more sense to use a flag called
>    large_base which defaults to false, rather than a flag called small-base
>    which defaults to true.  If the consensus is to use small-base I'll be
>    happy to change it.
> 
>    /M
> 
>    On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Don Stewart <[1]dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 
>      Just did a full run over hackage, building packages with ghc 6.8.2,
>      bytestring [2]0.9.0.1 and cabal [3]1.4.1..
> 
>      Several hundred packages built fine.
>      The majority are relatively easy to fix, if the upstream authors
>      can be contacted.
> 
>      The following could be marked broken, if we could do that.
> 
>      Easy:
>         Doesn't support small-base:
>             AGI
>             libxml
>             newbinary
>             openafp
>             StategyLib
>             Catch
>             classify
>             collections
>             compression
>             dataenc
>             derangement
>             hogg
>             hsc2hs 2006
>             hslogger
>             hsns
>             hsql
>             lambdaFeed
>             metaplug
>             mime-string
>             pointfree
>             sat
>             soegtk
>             sparsecheck
>             special-functors (needs base<2 !)
>             suffixtree
>             th-lift
>             torrent
>             udcode
> 
>      More work:
>         Broken:
>             BerkleyDB           -- missing extra-libs at least
>             dbus                -- various things.
>             encode              -- type errors
>             flippi              -- depends on unreleased cgi version
>             finance-treasury    -- needs new hxt-filter (author has patch)
>             HsPerl5-0.0.4       -- cc1: error: unrecognized command line
>      option "-Wl"
>             HsSVN               -- missing extra-libraries: svn
>             Monadius            -- missing: extra-libraries: glut
>             shu-thing           -- missing: extra-libraries: glut
>             postgresql          -- Too many parameters for class
>      `MonadDatabase'
>             probabilitymonads   -- Illegal instance declaration
>             sdl                 -- gcc: unrecognized option '-rpath'
>             baskell             -- missing modules
>             bot                 -- Duplciate Instance
>             cabal-setup         -- type error
>             cabal-tests         --  Could not find module `Tests'
>             cabalrpmdeps        -- cabal type error
>             clustertools        -- missing constructors
>             debian              -- cabal type error
>             dephhd              -- type error
>             hs-pgms             -- missing modules
>             network-rpca        -- type error
>             parsely             -- missing -XFunctionalDependencies
>             ports               -- cpp errro
>             postmaster          -- (.text+0x1442): undefined reference to
>      `EVP_mdc2' ?
>             reify               -- linker error reifyC
>             roguestar           -- Could not find module
>      `Keymaps.CommonKeymap'
>             slackbuild          -- cabal innards
>             lax                 -- cabal innards
>             lhs2tex             -- cabal innards
>             rss                 -- needs haxml 1.3..<1.4
>             scenegraph          -- source for
>      Graphics.SceneGraph.SimpleViewport
>             shell-pipe          -- `GHC.Handle' does not export `openFd'
>             srcinst             -- module Dpkg  missing
>             state               -- Setup: COPYRIGHT: copyFile: does not exist
>             storablevector      -- QC arbitrary missing
>      Control.Monad.Instances
>             truelevel           -- Could not find module `TrueLevelArgs'
>             type-int            -- Could not find module `Data.Type.Sign'
> 
>         GHC error:
>             WURFL --stack overflow on large file
>             cedict -- stack oflow on 32k large list
>             cpuid -- Error: suffix or operands invalid for `test'
> 
>         Depends on something hidden:
>             HDBC-postgresql-1.1.4.0, Cabal version: >=1.2 && <1.3
>             Takusen
>             cabal-upload
>             regex-dfa
>             regex-parsec
>             regex-pcre
>             regex-tdfa
> 
>      -- Don
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