[Nix-dev] Guidance on packaging extended-reals

[James Cook]

On 5 December 2014 at 08:04, Carlo Nucera <meditans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like a suggestion on what to do with the haskell package
> extended-reals (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/extended-reals),
> which, when I to package it, yields this error:
> http://lpaste.net/115721.
>
> I'm using, to install, a variant of this Fuuzetsu's config.nix:
>
> https://github.com/Fuuzetsu/nix-project-defaults/blob/master/nixpkgs-config/config.nix
>
> I gather that the problem is in the fact that the package Quickcheck
> is needed by the test suite, and I'd like to learn how to diagnose and
> solve this kind of problems.
>
> So, if you have a suggestion, it would be very appreciated.
>
>
I don't have experience packaging Haskell packages, but I think people
often use cabal2nix to automate the process

Guessing blindly,  is QuickCheck in your new expression's buildDepends? If
the answer is yes, could you show us the expression you used?

James
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