building hackage-server

hackage-server-build-notes

Currently hackage-server only builds with GHC 7.6.3.

# Installing ghc 7.6.3 for OSX

    # download the GHC 7.6.3 tarball for OSX (64-bit)
    # for links to other OSes: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_3
    wget https://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.3/ghc-7.6.3-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
    tar jxf ghc-7.6.3-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
    cd ghc-7.6.3
    mkdir $HOME/apps
    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps
    make install

    export PATH="$HOME/apps/bin:$PATH"

# Building hackage-server

1. Run `cabal get hackage-server-0.5.0`
2. Copy the following missing files from the hackage-server github repo
   https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server
   - Distribution/Server/Features/AdminFrontend.hs
   - Distribution/Server/Framework/HtmlFormWrapper.hs
3. Add `network-uri` to the build-depends of the the targets hackage-server, hackage-build and hackage-mirror.
4. Make sure `ghc` will invoke ghc-7.6.3.
5. Run `cabal install`

Diffs for step 3:

    --- ../hackage-server-0.5.0/hackage-server.cabal  2015-02-02 20:02:26.000000000 -0600
    +++ hackage-server-0.5.0/hackage-server.cabal 2015-02-02 19:51:23.000000000 -0600
    @@ -229,6 +229,7 @@
    
       build-depends:
         base       == 4.*,
    +    network-uri,
         filepath   >= 1.1,
         directory  >= 1.0 && < 1.3,
         random     >= 1.0,
    @@ -311,6 +312,7 @@
         Distribution.Server.Util.Merge
       build-depends:
         base,
    +    network-uri,
         containers, array, vector, bytestring, text, pretty,
         filepath, directory,
         time,     old-locale, random,
    @@ -333,6 +335,7 @@
         Distribution.Server.Util.Merge
       build-depends:
         base,
    +    network-uri,
         containers, array, vector, bytestring, text, pretty,
         filepath, directory, process >= 1.0,
         time,     old-locale,