[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#735747: Bug#735747: happy and alex - circular dependency and happy build-depends on happy.

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Helge Deller:
> package: happy
> 
> I'm trying to get happy and alex compiled for the hppa architecture.
> As you can see from the buildd-dependency-list at:
> http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hppa-all.txt
> 
> - happy build-depends on happy itself,
> - alex build-depends on happy
> 
> So, there is some circular dependency which shouldn't be.
> Furthermore - with no knowledge in haskell - I'm don't know how to
> termporarily work-around the "happy-on-happy-build-dependency".
> 
> Any help how I can resolve that would be great.
> In case you want a login to a debian-hppa machine, just let me know.

both happy and alex ship generated files that are generated with happy
resp. alex. So in Debian, according to our policies, we remove these and
re-generate them with the existing happy reps. alex binary.

You should be able to build them if you unpack the source tree, and
build without cleaning before. You might have to rename "dist/" to
"ghc-dist/" before – its been a while since I last bootstrapped these
packages.

Does that help you?

Oh, and where is the bug?  :-)

Questions about haskell packages are happily answered at
debian-haskell at lists.debian.org.

Greetings,
Joachim
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