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=0d16a9135055d0c998cac236608cb630c93f0ac7) 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.

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?

Best regards,

Fabien Dubosson

2013/10/28 Fabien Dubosson <fabien.dubosson@gmail.com>

Hi,

Continuing my investigations about my building problem, I think I have found its cause and a way to reproduce it.

Briefly, the important point is that the chroot environment must be created with devtools <= 20130408 (the last version that has makechrootpkg that support the "-d" flag). Once created, packages can be built even with newest versions of devtools that doesn't support the "-d" flag (but this requires to adapt the makeahpkg script to remove it).

At the opposite, if the chroot is created with a newer version, Haskell packages will build and install, but with a message like:

    Diff-0.3.0: cannot find libHSDiff-0.3.0.a on library path (use --force to override)

To reproduce, run the following commands once with devtools 20130408 and once with 20131020 (and don't forget to remove completely the "habs-temp" folder between the two tests):

    git clone https://github.com/StreakyCobra/habs.git habs-temp
    cd habs-temp
    cblrepo sync
    cblrepo pkgbuild Diff

    ./makeahpkg -c -- Diff
    # sudo rm habs-temp -rf

Can anybody confirm this behavior? Or is it just me?

Best regards,
Fabien Dubosson