Philip Weaver wrote: > Hi, I am interested in getting involved with building .deb packages for ghc. > My initial motivation is selfish; I want to learn about building debs so I > can deploy some custom ghc packages at work. But I also hope to be able to > use what I learn to contribute back to the ghc packages on ubuntu/debian.
Cool! > I have been trying to find documentation for building ghc deb packages, but > with no luck. All I have to work with right now is the haskell-devscripts > package, but I haven't yet been able to get a successful build. It would be > so helpful if anyone could provide a script that demonstrates how they > perform their builds of ghc, or the configuration files for > dpkg-buildpackage (the ones in the "debian" directory that gets created by > dh_make), or point me to a webpage with any useful information. Buidling ghc itself is a task that is not for the faint hearted. However, building haskell libraries is actually rather easy. The Debian Haskell Group's processes are documented here: http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell?action=show&redirect=Haskell%2FCollabMaint In particular, for a library, you should be working from the template: http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell/CollabMaint/PackageTemplate Finally, rather than using dpkg-buildpackge I would recommend using debuild like this: debuild -rfakeroot --lintian-opts -iI --color always HTH, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-haskell-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110124183601.770a4dc8.mle...@mega-nerd.com