Please describe the problem.

1. Building minimal variant of git-annex failed.
2. Seems, that instructions about minimal building from source are out-of-date, at least because options 'xmpp' and 'dns' don't exist in git-annex.cabal.
3. Also seems, that file Utility/SRV.hs unused, may be remove it?

In git-annex.cabal 'Assistant' flag doesn't influence on list of modules, only on compile flags and dependencies. 'Assistant/*' modules includes into base variant of building (and some 'Assistant/*' modules turn on with WebApp flag).

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Try to build as in archlinux package, but turn off assistant:

runhaskell Setup configure -O --prefix=/usr --enable-executable-dynamic --disable-library-vanilla --docdir="/usr/share/doc/git-annex" -fconcurrentoutput -ftorrentparser -f-androidsplice -f-android -fproduction -fpairing -fwebapp -f-assistant -fwebdav -fs3 -f-benchmark -fdbus -fmagicmime

runhaskell Setup.hs build

After that I got error:

Utility/Mounts.hs:13:1: error:

Could not find module ‘System.MountPoints’

haskell-mountpoints package is instaled. If turn on assistant flag, building is ok.

Please provide any additional information below.

I don't know haskell, but try to make optional building of Assistant, see patch. Seems, that it works for minimal building, but may be incomplete.

What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

6.20180807, Archlinux

Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)

Yes, use it for several years and have approx 100G repo with 10k+ files. Works fine.

You had the webapp flag enabled and the assistant disabled. That does not make sense; the assistant is part of the webapp. That explains why it failed to build. Disabling both webapp and assistant works, or only webapp and not assistant.

Ok, fixed it to not build the webapp when the assistant flag is disabled. [done]] --Joey