running `cabal install pandoc-sidenote` fails on ubuntu server 20.04

[bocajnotnef]

note: downloading the repo and running stack build succeeds, so at a guess the dependency specifications for the cabal package are out of date (but my Haskell ecosystem knowledge is nonexistent)

I'm trying to get pandoc-sidenote running on a clean Ubuntu Server 20.04

intermediate dependency installs I did:

• apt install ruby
• apt install cabal-install

Following the instructions on the readme, I ran cabal install pandoc-sidenote and got the following build log (build errors at the bottom):

$ cabal install pandoc-sidenote
Warning: The install command is a part of the legacy v1 style of cabal usage.

Please switch to using either the new project style and the new-install
command or the legacy v1-install alias as new-style projects will become the
default in the next version of cabal-install. Please file a bug if you cannot
replicate a working v1- use case with the new-style commands.

For more information, see: https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal/NewBuild

Resolving dependencies...
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Failed to install pandoc-1.9.4.3
Build log ( /home/jgf/.cabal/logs/ghc-8.6.5/pandoc-1.9.4.3-GKcE6LvbU1k55vThF6GVPD.log ):
cabal: Entering directory '/tmp/cabal-tmp-8368/pandoc-1.9.4.3'
cabal: Leaving directory '/tmp/cabal-tmp-8368/pandoc-1.9.4.3'
Downloading  primitive-0.7.1.0
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Starting     primitive-0.7.1.0
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Completed    primitive-0.7.1.0
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
pandoc-1.9.4.3-GKcE6LvbU1k55vThF6GVPD failed during the configure step. The
exception was:
dieVerbatim: user error (cabal: '/usr/bin/ghc' exited with an error:

/tmp/cabal-tmp-8368/pandoc-1.9.4.3/dist/setup/setup.hs:10:33: error:
Module
‘Distribution.Simple.GHC’
does not export
‘ghcPackageDbOptions’
|
10 | import Distribution.Simple.GHC (ghcPackageDbOptions)
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

/tmp/cabal-tmp-8368/pandoc-1.9.4.3/dist/setup/setup.hs:19:1: error:
Could not find module ‘System.Time’
Perhaps you meant
System.CPUTime (from base-4.12.0.0)
System.Cmd (from process-1.6.5.0)
System.Mem (from base-4.12.0.0)
Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
|
19 | import System.Time
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

/tmp/cabal-tmp-8368/pandoc-1.9.4.3/dist/setup/setup.hs:24:1: error:
Could not find module ‘Data.Default’
Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
|
24 | import Data.Default
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
pandoc-sidenote-0.19.0.0-J3Z8QpAdObg8D597w1LrMQ depends on
pandoc-sidenote-0.19.0.0 which failed to install.

I am wholly unfamiliar with Haskell development, and appreciate any guidance available.

[mvsoom]

Same problem here on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS.

[ngirard]

Just stumbled upon this problem.

@jez, how about releasing pre-compiled binaries using GitHub Actions ?

[ngirard]

Hey @bocajnotnef, @mvsoom, did you guys manage to get a working debian-amd64 binary of pandoc-sidenote v0.22.1 ? If so, I'd be interested to get it, or to reproduce the procedure you followed. Cheers

[bocajnotnef]

Hi ngirad,

I ran into too many issues and spun up a VM on an x64 machine instead. (Notably, I was also working on Manjaro as well.)

I know the Haskell compiler group had said they were near a working arm64 compiler, which ideally would solve much of the packaging problems, but I haven't been monitoring their progress very closely.

I'll double check my pinebook to verify that I didn't get pandoc working--if I'm misremembering I'll be sure to post what steps I can recover.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 11:47 ngirard [email protected] wrote:

Hey @bocajnotnef https://github.com/bocajnotnef, @mvsoom https://github.com/mvsoom, did you guys manage to get a working debian-amd64 binary of pandoc-sidenote v0.22.1 ? If so, I'd be interested to get it, or to reproduce the procedure you followed. Cheers

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[ngirard]

Hey @bocajnotnef, thanks for the heads up ! In case you're interested I managed to compile it manually and made a deb package here. That's far from ideal but hey...

@jez, I did try to leverage Github Actions, take a look at https://github.com/ngirard/pandoc-sidenote/actions if you will. The compilation runs fine (e.g. the Haskell CI workflow just works), but I ran into trouble when trying to upload the artefacts (using the Release workflow). Hopefully somebony can take it from here, I'm unlikely to devote more time to it soon.

[awreece]

@jez This thread looks kinda dead - but I'm also having lots of problems installing pandoc-sidenote for use in github actions. Would you want me to take a crack at improving CI to build binary artifacts for linux?

[AB1908]

Try: cabal install --ghc-options=-dynamic pandoc-sidenote

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Haskell#Package_management