% HSlackBuilder % Andrea Rossato About ----- [HSlackBuilder] is a simple application, at the present time only `cabal2slackBuild`, that will generate all needed scripts to build from the source a [Hackage] package released in the [Cabal] format and create a [Slackware] package to be install with [Slackware] `pkgtools`. Download -------- [HSlackBuilder] can be downloaded from [Hackage]: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hslackbuilder The darcs code can be retrieved from here: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/hslackbuilder Installation ------------ To install simply run: tar xvfz hslackbuilder-0.0.1.tar.gz cd hslackbuilder-0.0.1 runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=/usr/local runhaskell Setup.lhs build runhaskell Setup.lhs install # possibly to be run as root Running ------- Given a [Cabal] package named `example-0.1.tar.gz`, run: cabal2slackBuild example-0.1.tar.gz This will generate: doinst.sh example.SlackBuild slack-desc If `cabal2slackBuild` is run with the `-r` option also a `slack-required` will be generated. This file will contain *only* the [Haskell] packages needed for compiling `example`. If one of these packages is missing, instead of producing the slackBuild scripts, `cabal2slackBuild` will produce a warning. This is the output of `cabal2slackBuild -h` Usage: cabal2slackBuild [OPTION...] FILE The file must be a .tar.gz of a cabal package. Options: -h, -? --help This help -V --version Show version information -b build number --build-number=build number The build number -a architecture --arch=architecture The architecture -p --hs-prefix Use a 'hs-' prefix in package name to avoid conflicts with slackware package names -r --required Generate a slack-required from the dependency field Known Bugs and Issues --------------------- 1. At the present time no [Haddock] documentation is generated for executables. See: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/250 2. [Haddock]-2.0.0.0 doesn't support the `--hoogle` option anymore. 3. The [Cabal] `haddock --hyperlink-source` option seems to be broken: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/248 Please report bugs to: andrea.rossato AT unibz . it Author ------ Andrea Rossato `andrea.rossato AT unibz . it` Legal ----- This software is released under a BSD-style license. See LICENSE for more details. Copyright © 2007 Andrea Rossato [Cabal]: http://www.haskell.org/cabal [Hackage]: http://hackage.haskell.org [Haskell]: http://www.haskell.org [Haddock]: http:www.haskell.org/haddock [HSlackBuilder]: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hslackbuilder [Slackware]: http://www.slackware.com