Can't be built on many distros due to >= 3.4.0

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hasufell opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

    pkgconfig-depends: libarchive (==3.4.0 || >3.4.0) && <4.0

Is a very tight boundary. Current ubuntu LTS 18.04 cannot build this. This limits the possibilities for user-facing apps to use this library.

Vanessa McHale · Answer 1 · Wed Apr 15 2020 20:39:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hmm, maybe it would be worth using cpp somewhere?

Some of the features (like zstd among others) could be configurable I guess!

Vanessa McHale · Answer 2 · Fri Apr 17 2020 00:45:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ah, so this would require the C pre-processor to run before c2hs - certainly doable via cabal, but a bit of a pain, unfortunately.

Julian Ospald · Answer 3 · Sun Jul 05 2020 02:31:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

What's the proposed course of action? Bundle libarchive?

I would like to switch from the haskell tar implementation to libarchive in ghcup, because tars untar is not streaming properly.