Build error: cabal: Cannot build the executables in the package pandoc

Build error: cabal: Cannot build the executables in the package pandoc

[Axel Kielhorn (Pandoc)]

Hello,

I tried to update pandoc but get a build error:

pandoc % cabal build                                                                                             master
Resolving dependencies...
Up to date

pandoc % cabal install
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/pandoc-2.19.2.tar.gz
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/pandoc-server-0.1.tar.gz
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/pandoc-cli-0.1.tar.gz
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/commonmark-extensions-0.2.3.2.tar.gz
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/skylighting-format-blaze-html-0.1.1.tar.gz
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/texmath-0.12.5.2.tar.gz
Wrote tarball sdist to
.../pandoc/dist-newstyle/sdist/gridtables-0.0.3.0.tar.gz
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: Cannot build the executables in the package pandoc because it does not
contain any executables. Check the .cabal file for the package and make sure
that it properly declares the components that you expect.

pandoc % cabal --version                                                                                         master
cabal-install version 3.6.2.0
compiled using version 3.6.2.0 of the Cabal library 

This happens on macOS 11

The version before

bd1d923b86edba6e090ba14b1cd17e1e32c727f2

builds fine.

Greetings Axel

Re: Build error: cabal: Cannot build the executables in the package pandoc

[Albert Krewinkel]

Hi Axel,

"Axel Kielhorn (Pandoc)" <Pandoc-Mm1VAy9jqyoZTkkHcba27w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I tried to update pandoc but get a build error:
>
> pandoc % cabal install
> [...]
> cabal: Cannot build the executables in the package pandoc because it does not
> contain any executables. Check the .cabal file for the package and make sure
> that it properly declares the components that you expect.

The split between pandoc the library, and pandoc the program has been
made more explicit. The program will be part of the pandoc-cli package,
and we can install it with

    cabal install pandoc-cli


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