On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:39:31PM +0100, Fabien Dubosson wrote:
Hello again,
With a little help of "git bisect" on the devtools repository ( https://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/), I have found the reason of the following kind of messages:
Diff-0.3.0: cannot find libHSDiff-0.3.0.a on library path (use --force to override)
The commit 0d16a9135055d0c998cac236608cb630c93f0ac7 ( https://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=0d16a9135055d0c998cac...) make "!staticlibs" default in makepkg.conf. So every chroot environment containing this version will throw away static libraries when building packages. The commit was pushed to arch repository 8 days ago, so only newest chroot environments have this problem.
Interesting. I suspect this is related to the discussions on the Arch mailing list about static libs.
I see two solutions:
1. Change the "makepkg.conf" when creating the chroot environment to remove "!staticlibs", or, better 2. Change cblrepo to add «options=('strip' 'staticlibs')» when generating the PKGBUILDs.
Because I don't know if all packages have/need these static libraries, I ask you, experienced arch-haskeller, to point me the right direction?
We absolutely do need the static libs to be included in the generated packages. Ghc 7.6 uses static linking by default and thus all our tool packages rely on static libs in order to build properly. It could of course be changed but it'd require a change to cblrepo to generate PKGBUILDs that uses `depends` rather than `makedepends`. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Hard work may not kill me, but why take the chance.