Bug#797446: haskell-stack: Missing dependencies: libyaml, make, libgmp-dev

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Tom,

Am Sonntag, den 30.08.2015, 19:56 +0100 schrieb Tom Fitzhenry:
> Package: haskell-stack
> Version: 0.1.2.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The stack package has a few easy-to-workaround-but-serious issues:
> * stack(1) links against libyaml, but this is not specified as a 
> dependency.
> * `stack setup` fails with "The following executables are missing and 
> must be installed: make", if `make` is not installed. This should be 
> a dependency.
> * `stack setup` fails with "Linking /tmp/stack-sanity-check20372/Main 
> ... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgmp" if libgmp-dev is not installed. 
> This should be a dependency.

thanks for the report.

I guess the latter two dependencies are only required if you are not
using the Debian provided ghc. Which, of course, needs to be a
supported use case, and the dependencies do not hurt otherwise. I’ll
add them.

Greetings,
Joachim

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