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Fourth or fifth try at this and finally found a way to make it work. Absurd amount of busy-work forced on me by change in cabal's behavior. Split up Utility modules that need posix stuff out of ones used by Setup. Various other hacks around inability for Setup to use anything that ifdefs a use of unix. Probably lost a full day of my life to this. This is how build systems make their users hate them. Just saying.
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### Please describe the problem.
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git-annex uses a custom setup script but does not have a custom-setup stanza. This causes
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git-annex to be unbuildable with `cabal new-build` and I'm told it's also unbuildable with
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the old `cabal build` under certain circumstances.
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### What steps will reproduce the problem?
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Try building git-annex with `cabal new-build`.
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### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
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git-annex-6.20171214 on Debian GNU/Linux 9.
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### Please provide any additional information below.
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[[!format sh """
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# If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here.
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# If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log
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$ cabal new-build --constraint="any.git-annex -testsuite"
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Resolving dependencies...
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In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details):
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- git-annex-6.20171214 (exe:git-annex) -testsuite -dbus -concurrentoutput (requires build)
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- dummypkg-0 (lib) (first run)
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Configuring git-annex-6.20171214 (all, legacy fallback)...
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cabal: Failed to build git-annex-6.20171214 (which is required by dummypkg-0).
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The failure occurred during the configure step. The exception was:
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dieVerbatim: user error (cabal: '/usr/bin/ghc' exited with an error:
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/home/matthew/dummypkg/dist-newstyle/tmp/src-3285/git-annex-6.20171214/Utility/FileSize.hs:10:1:
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error:
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Failed to load interface for ‘System.PosixCompat.Files’
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It is a member of the hidden package ‘unix-compat-0.5.0.1’.
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Perhaps you need to add ‘unix-compat’ to the build-depends in your .cabal
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file.
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Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
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)
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# End of transcript or log.
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"""]]
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### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
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Yeah, it's amazing! I've been using the version from the Debian repos and then
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wanted to try building the new version for youtube-dl support.
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> Revisited it and seem to have managed to add custom-setup back. [[done]]
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> --[[Joey]]
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