[arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

[Sebastian Reuße]

Hello Felix,

Felix Yan <felixonmars at archlinux.org> writes:

> On 06/26/2017 09:42 PM, Sebastian Reuße via arch-general wrote:
>> Can you advise whether it’s currently possible to do sandboxed static
>> builds at all? The issue I’m running into is that Cabal won’t install
>> sandboxed dependencies if it sees that the corresponding packages are
>> already registered within the global package DB; the build will proceed
>> but will then error out during static linking.

> With the current package set the only way I have in mind is to install
> stack and start from there. This is unfortunately the same for C
> libraries since our removal of their static libs.

> An idea is to provide an alternative package database in the ghc-static
> package that only contains the boot libraries. You will need to ignore
> global package database and specify that alternative path to use it.
> Does this sound like useful?

That does sound preferable to not being able to do sandboxed static
builds at all. I’ll also try pinging the Cabal folks when I get a
chance; maybe it would make sense for cabal-install to be able to
enforce reinstallation of dependencies without listing all packages
explicitly.

Kind regards,
SR

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