Re: Error building package

[trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)]

Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> writes:

> Trent W. Buck wrote:
>
>>             runghc Setup build
> [..]
>>             runghc Setup clean
> [..]
>>             runghc Setup configure
> [..]
>>             runghc Setup copy --destdir=$(CURDIR)/darcs
>
> I'm not sure this correct; runghc requires GHCI, which is not available
> on all architectures. I see the patch linked uses `ghc --make` though.

Yeah, on closer inspection I noticed two other bugs: configure needs
--prefix=/usr and copy should use --destdir=$(CURDIR)/debian/darcs,
where "darcs" is the name of the package, or for multi-binary packages,
"tmp".