If you actually look at the changelog for 1.4.2.1, you'll see that it
mentions that it was only intended for ghc-7.0.4, which is why it has
a dependency on an inconveniently old version of `unix`, which
is *also* hidden behind a flag, so that we can't jailbreak it (per
https://github.com/peti/jailbreak-cabal/issues/15).
So the right thing to do would appear to me to be to override our
default version to 1.4.2.0, until such time as the maintainer makes a
newer release.
`ConfigFile` was collateral damage, so unmark it broken, as well as
`MissingH` itself.
The patchs in question fail to apply against the current versoin, and
thus the package fails to build; `hasktags` is then collateral damage.
Remove reference to the patch and make sure neither package will be
marked broken going forward.
Unfortunately, we cannot compile git-annex with S3 support in an
LTS-15.x environment, because the 'aws' library hasn't updated to
version 3.x of the 'network' library [1]. I tried whether it's
possible to build git-annex with an older version of network, but
the amount of overrides we'd have to configure to accomplish that
got out of hand quickly. So I disabled aws support [2]. If you
need S3 support in git-annex, please help upstream to update
'aws' so that it builds with recent versions of 'network'.
[1] https://github.com/aristidb/aws/issues/264
[2] 1d0459f40e
This includes two layered changes so the gtk2hs packages build on Darwin:
- For `glib`, `gio`, `gtk`, `gtk3`, and `pango`: the fix for version 0.13.8.0
from https://github.com/gtk2hs/gtk2hs/pull/293 . I expect at some point the
referenced fix (or one like it) will be released and and brought into
nixpkgs, at which point the override and patch files here can (in fact must)
be removed.
- For `gtk` and `gtk3`: also apply the required cabal flag cited in
https://github.com/gtk2hs/gtk2hs/issues/249 to specify the Quartz rather than
X11 backend (Quartz is the one that both nixpkgs and macOS support
out-the-box). This override is likely to be wanted indefinitely.
Both modifications are required for a successful build of `gtk` or `gtk3` on
Darwin right now.
