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guix import fails for cabal-helper

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From: Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: guix import fails for cabal-helper
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 15:23:56 +0000

I've been trying to improve the Haskell tooling we have here on Guix, but
I ran into this problem: if I try to do ~guix import hackage
cabal-helper~ it fails with:

Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 76, column 0)
Syntax error: unexpected end of input
guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'cabal-helper'

If I import ghc-mod (which depends on cabal-helper) recursively, I get this:

Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 76, column 0)
Syntax error: unexpected end of input
Backtrace:
          13 (primitive-load "/home/brown/.config/guix/current/bin/g…")
In guix/ui.scm:
  1806:12 12 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In guix/scripts/import.scm:
   116:11 11 (guix-import . _)
In guix/scripts/import/hackage.scm:
   132:26 10 (guix-import-hackage . _)
In guix/import/utils.scm:
    425:7  9 (recursive-import _ _ #:repo->guix-package _ #:guix-name …)
   397:31  8 (topological-sort _ #<procedure 7f74ceff4ed0 at guix/i…> …)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29  7 (map1 _)
   592:29  6 (map1 _)
   592:29  5 (map1 _)
   592:29  4 (map1 _)
   592:29  3 (map1 ("monad-journal" "pipes" "cabal-helper"))
   592:29  2 (map1 ("pipes" "cabal-helper"))
   592:17  1 (map1 ("cabal-helper"))
In guix/import/utils.scm:
   421:36  0 (lookup-node "cabal-helper")

guix/import/utils.scm:421:36: In procedure lookup-node:
Throw to key `vm-error' with args `(vm-run "Wrong number of values
returned to continuation (expected ~a)" (2))'.

Message #8 received at 38946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
To: 38946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38946: guix import fails for cabal-helper
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:40:14 +0100

It appears that the guix cabal parser (in guix/import/cabal.scm) isn’t aware
of `common` stanzas.

https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#pkg-section-common-common

Note that there’s quite a few issues with the cabal parser, and the format is pretty
baroque, to the extent that I wonder whether it wouldn’t be better to delegate the
parsing to cabal itself.

E.g.:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35743
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36690

I also remember some issue with braces instead of indentation, but can’t find a bug
report right now.

Message #13 received at 38946-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>
To: Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38946-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix import fails for cabal-helper
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 08:56:36 +0200

Hi,

> I've been trying to improve the Haskell tooling we have here on Guix, but
> I ran into this problem: if I try to do ~guix import hackage
> cabal-helper~ it fails with:

Guix has had support for the `common` stanza for quite a while now and
importing cabal-helper works. Closing.

Lars

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