Difference between revisions of "Arch Linux"

From HaskellWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Updating, removing links to pages that have been "removed".)
 
(17 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
== Haskell on Arch Linux ==
+
Guidelines, and community info, for Haskell on Arch Linux.
   
  +
* [http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/ Arch Haskell News]
Goals:
 
  +
* [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines Arch Haskell Wiki]
  +
** [[/Arch_Haskell_Group_Maintainership]]
  +
** [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_released_with_GHC Libraries shipped with GHC]
   
 
[[Category:Community]]
* all hackage packages into AUR or community.
 
* automatic conversion of new cabal packages to AUR packages
 
* make Arch Linux the most up to date Haskell platform around
 
 
=== Community ===
 
 
#arch-haskell on freenode.
 
 
=== Guidelines ===
 
 
We're working on a tool to automate PKGBUILD generation.
 
 
* darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/cabal2arch
 
 
Or:
 
 
* cabal install cabal2arch
 
 
====Libraries ====
 
 
In general, each .cabal file should map to one PKGBUILD. The following conventions hold:
 
 
* libraries have their cabal names prefixed with "haskell-"
 
* all haskell dependencies are statically linked, so can go in the makdepends field.
 
* all libraries have a dependency on 'ghc'
 
 
Registering Haskell libraries is done via a register hook:
 
 
<haskell>
 
build() {
 
cd $startdir/src/cabal2arch-0.1
 
runhaskell Setup configure --prefix=/usr || return 1
 
runhaskell Setup build || return 1
 
runhaskell Setup register --gen-script || return 1
 
runhaskell Setup unregister --gen-script || return 1
 
install -D -m744 register.sh $startdir/pkg/usr/share/haskell/$pkgname/register.sh
 
install -m744 unregister.sh $startdir/pkg/usr/share/haskell/$pkgname/unregister.sh
 
runhaskell Setup copy --destdir=$startdir/pkg || return 1
 
install -D -m644 LICENSE $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE || return 1
 
}
 
</haskell>
 
 
====Executables ====
 
 
* Have their normal name
 
[[Categories:Community]]
 

Latest revision as of 21:34, 30 January 2011

Guidelines, and community info, for Haskell on Arch Linux.