* On Tuesday, January 19 2010, Xyne wrote: ...
I have tried to install haskell-parsec from [extra] but this in turn complained about missing (haskell-)mtl, which I then also installed. After this I tried to build haskell-csv again but that failed with the same error as above. At that point I gave up as I didn't have the time to fiddle with a series of broken PKGBUILDs or try to figure out what the exact problem is. I realize that it may be something painfully obvious and simple, but I am not familiar with building haskell packages yet and simply did not have the time to investigate further.
You could fall back to using cabal-install to get cabal2arch, which will chase all those dependencies. However there are a couple changes needed to build cabal2arch with ghc-6.12 (to use cabal-1.8). Attached is a darcs patch which fixes the compile errors with ghc-6.12, but maybe it will be applied sometime soon. $ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/cabal2arch $ cd cabal2arch $ darcs apply path/to/patch.dpatch $ cabal install Then hopefully you can use cabal2arch as planned? -- Adam