Re: Error building package

[Lyle Kopnicky <lists@qseep.net>]

Hi Magnus,

Thanks for the help. I'm having some trouble with the steps. Especially step 5, because it involves a command called register, which I don't have. What is that?

- Lyle

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:

Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to build a debian package from cabal for the first time. I'm
> following the instructions at
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Creating_Debian_packages_from_Cabal_package.
> I got the following error:
>
> $ debian/rules update-generated-files
> update-debian-haskell-files
> update-haskell-control
> Failed to find provides of ghc6-doc
> exit: ExitFailure 1
> make: *** [update-generated-files] Error 1
>
> Any ideas how I can approach fixing that?

I'd recommend starting over, using hlibrary.mk instead.  Here's a
shameless plug for my own blog post: http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458

Note that step 14 needs to be modified, something I found out myself
just a few days ago
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2009/02/msg00079.html).

/M

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