Question: Package does not install on hackage. Why?

[ivanperez-keera]

The following package cannot be installed on hackage:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ogma-language-c-1.0.6/reports/1

However, it can be installed from hackage if alex and happy are in the path (BFNC needs them). The following docker image installs it (indirectly):

FROM ubuntu:trusty

RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get install --yes software-properties-common
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:hvr/ghc
RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get install --yes ghc-9.0.1 cabal-install-2.4
RUN apt-get install --yes libz-dev

ENV PATH=/opt/ghc/9.0.1/bin:/opt/cabal/2.4/bin:$PWD/.cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH

RUN cabal update
RUN cabal v1-sandbox init
RUN cabal v1-install alex happy
RUN cabal v1-install ogma-cli

Is there something in the BNFC or ogma-** cabal files that should be specified differently?

[ffaf1]

Cannot test now, but maybe you can do it using `build-tool-depends`? Il 22 novembre 2022 alle 12:33 Ivan Perez, PhD ha scritto:

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The following package cannot be installed on hackage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ogma-language-c-1.0.6/reports/1 However, it can be installed from hackage if `alex` and `happy` are in the path (BFNC needs them). The following docker image installs it: ```Dockerfile FROM ubuntu:trusty RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install --yes software-properties-common RUN add-apt-repository ppa:hvr/ghc RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install --yes ghc-9.0.1 cabal-install-2.4 RUN apt-get install --yes libz-dev ENV PATH=/opt/ghc/9.0.1/bin:/opt/cabal/2.4/bin:$PWD/.cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH RUN cabal update RUN cabal v1-sandbox init RUN cabal v1-install alex happy RUN cabal v1-install ogma-cli ``` Is there something in the BNFC or ogma-** cabal files that should be specified differently? -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #8615 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[gbaz]

Tested and adding build-tool-depends: BNFC:bnfc to the library stanza seems to do the trick.

Without this change, on a local box and not just hackage, the package fails with v2-build in general, if the bnfc executable is not already in scope.

[ivanperez-keera]

Thank you. I will try it.

[Mikolaj]

Did it work? If so, could you mark an "answer"?