[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#654628: haskell-cmdargs: FTBFS on many arches: Template Haskell bracket illegal in a stage-1 compiler

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Joachim,

Thanks for the suggestion. However, there are three reasons I'm not
going to the test-suite pragma for a while:

1) I was the first user of the original Cabal test suite stuff (5
years ago, I guess). I got burned on every single one of my packages.
This time, I'm going to be the last person arriving at the test suite
party :)

2) Cabal 1.9.2 is too high a dependency for the moment, but give it a
couple of years and it will be fine.

3) Some of my tests are both examples and tests - but perhaps this
reason isn't too critical (I can't imagine many people running cmdargs
that often).

Thanks, Neil

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> alternatively, you can turn the executable into a test-suite, as
> supported by Cabal-0.10, if you don’t mind that dependency bump. Then it
> is not built by default.
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
> Am Samstag, den 07.01.2012, 11:31 +0000 schrieb Neil Mitchell:
>> If you turn of both testprog and quotation it should work. I'll change
>> the .cabal file so that is automatic in future.
>>
>> Thanks, Neil
>>
>> On Friday, January 6, 2012, Clint Adams <clint at debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:04:19AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>> >> Note that while CmdArgs 0.9 introduces a dependency on TH, it's
>> only
>> >> optional. If you disable the cabal flag "quotation" then it will
>> build
>> >> without template-haskell, so should still work fine on ARM.
>> >
>> > I tried this with cmdargs 0.9, but
>> >
>> > Flags chosen: quotation=False, testprog=True
>> > [...]
>> > [23 of 23] Compiling System.Console.CmdArgs
>> ( System/Console/CmdArgs.hs, dist-ghc/build/System/Console/CmdArgs.p_o
>> )
>> > Registering cmdargs-0.9...
>> >
>> > System/Console/CmdArgs/Quote.hs:61:8:
>> >    Could not find module `Language.Haskell.TH':
>> >      It is a member of the hidden package `template-haskell'.
>> >      Perhaps you need to add `template-haskell' to the build-depends
>> in your .cabal file.
>> >      Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
>> >
>> > Any idea why this is happening?
>> >
>> > (See
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=haskell-cmdargs&arch=armel&ver=0.9-3&stamp=1325810596
>> > for a more complete log)
>> >
>
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