On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 12:05 am, Charles \ wrote:
Hi Dominic,
I've been experimenting today with creating a rough debian/ directory for creating a package of crypto version 2.0.3. I'm not sure if you have experience with debian. I basically copied the NewBinary debian/ directory and looked as well at the http library's debian directory and read some of the Debian manuals. A strange problem arises when trying to build the examples where the Crypto library hasn't actually been installed yet so when it starts to build BERTest it throws an error:
./Codec/Utils.hs:1:0: Module `Codec.Utils' is a member of package Crypto-2.0.3. To compile this module, please use -ignore-package Crypto-2.0.3. ./setup build files: 256 at /usr/bin/dh_haskell_buildinst line 167,
line 1. make: *** [install] Error 1 Any ideas or suggestions? Should I just remove the test binaries from this cabal file or should I contact the maintainer for dh_haskell and ask him to look into a solution for the issue.
I'm still a newbie to haskell so forgive me if this is trivial.
peace, core Charles,
The message is saying you already have Crypto-2.0.3 installed and the compiler has found something of the same name on its search path. I don't know what dh_haskell is. Is it something to do with Cabal? I get this message when I am playing around in the source tree so I use -ignore-package so that everything gets picked from my current sources rather than using the installed package. I know nothing about debian (although I am planning to move to it if I ever get the time). I'd suggest using ghc-pkg to see what's installed (as far as ghc is concerned) and then use one of the options to remove Crypto and try building again. Dom.