[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#738428: haskell-ncurses: FTBFS: GenBind.evalConstCExpr: Casts are not implemented yet.

[David Suárez]

Source: haskell-ncurses
Version: 0.2.1-4
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140208 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  debian/rules build
> test -x debian/rules
> mkdir -p "."
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk:109: WARNING:  DEB_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE is a deprecated variable
> if test ! -e Setup.lhs -a ! -e Setup.hs; then echo "No setup script found!"; exit 1; fi
> for setup in Setup.lhs Setup.hs; do if test -e $setup; then ghc --make $setup -o debian/hlibrary.setup; exit 0; fi; done
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
> Linking debian/hlibrary.setup ...
> debian/hlibrary.setup configure --ghc -v2 \
> 		--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib \
> 		--builddir=dist-ghc \
> 		--haddockdir=/usr/lib/ghc-doc/haddock/ncurses-0.2.1/ --datasubdir=ncurses\
> 		--htmldir=/usr/share/doc/libghc-ncurses-doc/html/ --enable-library-profiling  \
> 		   
> Configuring ncurses-0.2.1...
> Dependency base >=4.0 && <5.0: using base-4.6.0.1
> Dependency containers >=0.2: using containers-0.5.0.0
> Dependency text >=0.7: using text-0.11.3.1
> Dependency transformers >=0.2: using transformers-0.3.0.0
> Using Cabal-1.16.0 compiled by ghc-7.6
> Using compiler: ghc-7.6.3
> Using install prefix: /usr
> Binaries installed in: /usr/bin
> Libraries installed in:
> /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/ncurses-0.2.1/ghc-7.6.3
> Private binaries installed in: /usr/libexec
> Data files installed in: /usr/share/ncurses
> Documentation installed in: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-0.2.1
> No alex found
> Using ar found on system at: /usr/bin/ar
> Using c2hs version 0.16.4 found on system at: /usr/bin/c2hs
> No cpphs found
> No ffihugs found
> Using gcc version 4.8 found on system at: /usr/bin/gcc
> Using ghc version 7.6.3 found on system at: /usr/bin/ghc
> Using ghc-pkg version 7.6.3 found on system at: /usr/bin/ghc-pkg
> No greencard found
> Using haddock version 2.13.2 found on system at: /usr/bin/haddock
> No happy found
> No hmake found
> Using hpc version 0.6 found on system at: /usr/bin/hpc
> Using hsc2hs version 0.67 found on system at: /usr/bin/hsc2hs
> Using hscolour version 1.20 found on system at: /usr/bin/HsColour
> No hugs found
> No jhc found
> Using ld found on system at: /usr/bin/ld
> No lhc found
> No lhc-pkg found
> No nhc98 found
> No pkg-config found
> Using ranlib found on system at: /usr/bin/ranlib
> Using strip found on system at: /usr/bin/strip
> Using tar found on system at: /bin/tar
> No uhc found
> debian/hlibrary.setup build --builddir=dist-ghc
> Building ncurses-0.2.1...
> Preprocessing library ncurses-0.2.1...
> c2hs: Feature not yet implemented:
>   GenBind.evalConstCExpr: Casts are not implemented yet.
> 
> 
> make: *** [build-ghc-stamp] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/02/08/haskell-ncurses_0.2.1-4_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.