haskell-ncurses: FTBFS: GenBind.evalConstCExpr: Casts are not implemented yet.

[Andreas Moog]

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/738354:

Package: haskell-ncurses
Version: 0.2.1-4
Severity: serious

Hi there,

Your package haskell-ncurses fails to build in current unstable on amd64.

(Hopefully) Relevant part of the log:
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Using Cabal-1.16.0 compiled by ghc-7.6
Using compiler: ghc-7.6.3
Using install prefix: /usr
Binaries installed in: /usr/bin
Libraries installed in:
/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/ncurses-0.2.1/ghc-7.6.3
Private binaries installed in: /usr/libexec
Data files installed in: /usr/share/ncurses
Documentation installed in: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-0.2.1
No alex found
Using ar found on system at: /usr/bin/ar
Using c2hs version 0.16.4 found on system at: /usr/bin/c2hs
No cpphs found
No ffihugs found
Using gcc version 4.8 found on system at: /usr/bin/gcc
Using ghc version 7.6.3 found on system at: /usr/bin/ghc
Using ghc-pkg version 7.6.3 found on system at: /usr/bin/ghc-pkg
No greencard found
Using haddock version 2.13.2 found on system at: /usr/bin/haddock
No happy found
No hmake found
Using hpc version 0.6 found on system at: /usr/bin/hpc
Using hsc2hs version 0.67 found on system at: /usr/bin/hsc2hs
Using hscolour version 1.20 found on system at: /usr/bin/HsColour
No hugs found
No jhc found
Using ld found on system at: /usr/bin/ld
No lhc found
No lhc-pkg found
No nhc98 found
No pkg-config found
Using ranlib found on system at: /usr/bin/ranlib
Using strip found on system at: /usr/bin/strip
Using tar found on system at: /bin/tar
No uhc found
debian/hlibrary.setup build --builddir=dist-ghc
Building ncurses-0.2.1...
Preprocessing library ncurses-0.2.1...
c2hs: Feature not yet implemented:
  GenBind.evalConstCExpr: Casts are not implemented yet.

make: *** [build-ghc-stamp] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20140209-1628

Finished
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E: Build failure (dpkg-buildpackage died)

A full buildlog is available at http://www.warperbbs.de/stuff/buildlogs/haskell-ncurses_0.2.1-4_amd64.build

Thanks for your time!

Regards,
  Andreas

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[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This is fixed in the current Ubuntu development release.