Re: pkgsrc-wip NetBSD 3.0/i386 bulk build results 20060215.1754

[Emil Sköldberg <emil%math.su.se@localhost>]

> pkgsrc bulk build results
> NetBSD 3.0/i386
>
[...]
> wip/c2hs                           emil%math.su.se@localhost

This fails due to a problem with wip/cabal (which is needed to build c2hs=
)
that I will try to explain, in the hope of getting some feedback on how t=
o
solve it:

Background:
The haskell compiler ghc has a file listing all installed packages
'${PREFIX}/lib/ghc-${PKGVERSION}/package.conf' This file has to be update=
d
after the installation of wip/cabal (this is now done  via cabal's INSTAL=
L
script).

Why the bulk build of wip/c2hs breaks is because wip/cabal is installed
by the bulk script before lang/ghc is installed, so the aforementioned
INSTALL script cannot modify package.conf which leads to the failure of
the c2hs build.

I can see two possible solutions:

1): remove the line

BUILDLINK_DEPMETHOD.ghc?=3D       build

from lang/ghc/buildlink3.mk

2): Create a new pkgsrc-specific package.conf file
in ${PREFIX}/etc that wip/cabal could modify instead of the
lib/ghc-x.x.x/package.conf file.

The second possible solution seems more appealing to me, but would maybe
necessitate that /usr/pkg/bin/ghc instead of being a symlink to
/usr/pkg/bin/ghc-x.x.x would have to be a little wrapper script that
called the binary with the configuration file as an argument.

Any suggestions?

/emil


--=20
Emil Sk=F6ldberg
Dept. of Mathematics
National University of Ireland, Galway




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