*sigh* I completely missed those last few lines of the gtk2hs-buildtools cabal file. Thanks. I wonder if the error message cblrepo gives could include missing dependencies, so we wouldn't be left guessing. Rich On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:56:02PM -0700, Richard Wallace wrote:

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I'm trying to add gtk2hs-buildtools and am getting that error

$ cblrepo add gtk2hs-buildtools,0.12.5.2 $ cblrepo pkgbuild --ghc-version 7.8.2-1 Failed to finalize package: gtk2hs-buildtools

In digging into the source, it looks like this means a dependency was not able to be found. But all the things that gtk2hs-buildtools depends on are provided by ghc, so I'm a bit at a loss. Any idea what is going on?

Yes, that sounds right to me.

I suspect it's the following interesting combination that's causing it:

1. When adding you use the standard ghc (which I think still is 7.6 on the latest release of `cblrepo`). 2. When building the package you tell `cblrepo` to use Ghc 7.8.2 3. The gtk2hs-buildtools.cabal file contains the following:

if impl(ghc >= 7.7) build-depends: hashtables

I think this combination means that your database doesn't record the dependency on hashtables, but on generating the PKGBUILD the dependency appears.

I really ought to get around to making a new release of `cblrepo`!

/M

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