Hi everyone, Apologies for being unre{sponsive,achable} in the last few days. Anyways, I've *finally* gone through bsd.haskell.mk submitted by Jacula, and tried porting devel/hs-utf8-string-ghc to it and with little bit of struggle with documentation I was successful. Following are the Makefile and pkg-plist of the updated port. ,---- Makefile | PORTNAME= utf8-string | PORTVERSION= 0.3.4 | CATEGORIES= devel haskell | MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_HACKAGE} | PKGNAMEPREFIX= hs- | PKGNAMESUFFIX= -ghc | | MAINTAINER= wahjava@gmail.com | COMMENT= Support for reading/writing UTF8 strings for Haskell programs | | USE_CABAL= distrsimple:full docs hc:full lhs genreg profile:full | | .include <bsd.port.mk> `---- ,---- pkg-plist | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec/Binary/UTF8/Generic.hi | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec/Binary/UTF8/Generic.p_hi | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec/Binary/UTF8/String.hi | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec/Binary/UTF8/String.p_hi | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/ByteString/Lazy/UTF8.hi | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/ByteString/Lazy/UTF8.p_hi | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/ByteString/UTF8.hi | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/ByteString/UTF8.p_hi | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/String/UTF8.hi | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/String/UTF8.p_hi | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/HSutf8-string-0.3.4.o | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/System/IO/UTF8.hi | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/System/IO/UTF8.p_hi | %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/libHSutf8-string-0.3.4.a | %%PROFILE%%%%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/libHSutf8-string-0.3.4_p.a | %%D_LIBDIR_REL%%/%%D_REG%% | %%NOPORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/LICENSE | %%NOPORTDOCS%%@dirrm %%DOCSDIR%% | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/System/IO | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/System | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/String | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/ByteString/Lazy | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data/ByteString | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Data | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec/Binary/UTF8 | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec/Binary | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%%/Codec | @dirrm %%D_LIBSUBDIR_REL%% | @dirrm lib/utf8-string-0.3.4 | @exec %%REG_CMD%% | @unexec %%UNREG_CMD%% `---- Now, I've a (C)omment, (Q)uestion and (S)uggestion regarding that bsd.haskell.mk w.r.t. to the above port stuff: Q. As clear from the below output, the updated ports installs libraries in the ${PREFIX}/lib/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}/${GHC_VER} instead of the older ${PREFIX}/lib/${GHC_VER}/cabal. Is this convention going to be followed from now onwards, hmm... ? I'm a n00b in the Haskell world, so I'm not sure about this convention thingie, but anyhow package worked fine in that other location too, due to package registration script :). ,---- | abbe [hs-utf8-string-ghc] monte-cristo% pkg_info -xL utf8-string |fgrep lib | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Codec/Binary/UTF8/Generic.hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Codec/Binary/UTF8/Generic.p_hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Codec/Binary/UTF8/String.hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Codec/Binary/UTF8/String.p_hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Data/ByteString/Lazy/UTF8.hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Data/ByteString/Lazy/UTF8.p_hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Data/ByteString/UTF8.hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Data/ByteString/UTF8.p_hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Data/String/UTF8.hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/Data/String/UTF8.p_hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/HSutf8-string-0.3.4.o | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/System/IO/UTF8.hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/System/IO/UTF8.p_hi | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/libHSutf8-string-0.3.4.a | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.8.3/libHSutf8-string-0.3.4_p.a | /usr/local/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/register.sh `---- C. The bsd.haskell.mk seems to be good enough, but few things I've not understood esp. the workings and theory of the "funky" part due to my lack of category-theory background. So pardon me for my n00bness atm but I'll try to understand this, as the theory part interests me too :). S. The best way to test out the bsd.haskell.mk is by porting more and more ports to it. So I recommend we should port existing ports and new ports to the bsd.haskell.mk way and push to the 'infrastructure' branch (or any other special branch created for the purpose). And until bsd.haskell.mk makes into the official ports tree, we should also keep porting new/updated ports in the current way. Although this will be a bit time consuming, but this will be helpful in testing bsd.haskell.mk and improving it wherever it lacks. And whenever bsd.haskell.mk goes into the tree, the haskell ports can also be submitted. And IIRC, Samy mentioned on the IRC that he is running GHC 6.10.1 on his "centrino" box. Samy if you need some testers, could you please push your port to the repo so we can start working with it. And also will I be able to install multiple versions of GHC side-by-side, hmm...? Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA