Re: error on building the windows installer

[andrea rossato <andrea.rossato-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> +++ Cesar Romani [Nov 07 12 14:40 ]:
>  
>> If I follow these steps on the batch file:
>> 1. cabal-dev install --disable-library-for-ghci highlighting-kate
>> 2. cabal-dev add-source pandoc-types
>> 3. cabal-dev install --reinstall --force-reinstalls pandoc-types
>> 4. cabal-dev install --flags="embed_data_files" citeproc-hs
>> 5. cabal-dev install --flags="executable -library blaze_html_0_5"
>> --datasubdir=
>> ...
>> 
>> I always get the same error on the 5. line:
>> 
>> [...]
>> Linking dist\build\pandoc\pandoc.exe ...
>> Preprocessing executable 'make-pandoc-man-pages' for pandoc-1.10...
>> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id pandoc-1.10-inplace
>>     (use -v for more information)
>> cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> pandoc-1.10 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>> ExitFailure 1
>
> Ah.  I see what is going on.
>
> To build make-pandoc-man-pages, we need the library installed.
> But we disabled that with the '-library' flag, in order to make
> the executable relocatable.
>
> Well, the man pages aren't really needed for Windows anyway,
> so maybe I'll add a cabal flag that turns off 'make-pandoc-man-pages';
> I can then use this in the windows package creation script.
>
> Thanks.

In citeproc-hs there also seems to be a bug which shows up when building
with the "embed_data_files" flags. I'm going to fix it later this
afternoon.

Andrea