How to port a Haskell project that doesn't use cabal, and uses stack instead?

[Gleb Popov]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:54 AM Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 2020-02-24 02:09, Gleb Popov wrote:
> >
> > This project has "package.yaml" file. It is a file for hpack program,
> > which can be turned into a proper .cabal file. Start with
> >
> > USES=cabal:hpack
> >
> > Other than that, you'll need to add USE_GITHUB=yes to make the
> > distfile fetch from GitHub.
>
>
> It fails:
>
> cabal: Internal error in target matching. It should always be possible
> to find
> a syntax that's sufficiently qualified to give an unambiguous match.
> However
> when matching 'exe:alchemy' we found exe:alchemy (unknown-component) which
> does not have an unambiguous syntax. The possible syntax and the targets
> they
> match are as follows:
> 'exe:alchemy' which matches exe:alchemy (unknown-component),
> :pkg:exe:lib:exe:file:alchemy (unknown-file)
>

According to package.yaml, the only executable provided by the package is
called "alchemy-homomrlwr".

cabal.mk defaults to EXECUTABLES=${PORTNAME}, so you have to override it in
this case.


>
> Yuri
>
>
>
>
> PORTNAME=    alchemy
> PORTVERSION=    g20200223
> CATEGORIES=    security haskell
>
> MAINTAINER=    haskell at FreeBSD.org
> COMMENT=    X
>
> LICENSE=    BSD3CLAUSE
>
> USES=        cabal:hpack
> USE_GITHUB=    yes
> GH_ACCOUNT=    cpeikert
> GH_PROJECT=    ALCHEMY
> GH_TAGNAME=    76b9fd7
>
> .include <bsd.port.mk>
>
>