Hey, so I am trying to compile git-annex through cabal but it fails on building uuid. It gives me this strange error:
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring uuid-1.3.1...
Building uuid-1.3.1...
Preprocessing library uuid-1.3.1...
[ 1 of 10] Compiling Data.UUID.Builder ( Data/UUID/Builder.hs, dist/build/Data/UUID/Builder.o )
[ 2 of 10] Compiling Data.Word.Util ( Data/Word/Util.hs, dist/build/Data/Word/Util.o )
[ 3 of 10] Compiling Data.UUID.Internal ( Data/UUID/Internal.hs, dist/build/Data/UUID/Internal.o )
Data/UUID/Internal.hs:394:20: Not in scope: `BL.fromStrict'
Data/UUID/Internal.hs:399:48: Not in scope: `BL.toStrict'
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
git-annex-4.20131002 depends on uuid-1.3.1 which failed to install.
uuid-1.3.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
Any advice on how to proceed?
System is: Debian Wheezy (CrunchBang Waldorf) 64bit
versions are: uuid-dev: 2.20.1-5.3 cabal: 1.14.0
fromStrictin version 0.10.0.0. Probablycabal install bytestringwill fix it up for you, but building git-annex from source using cabal is a complicated thing that can go wrong in many ways. Have you considered one of the prebuilt binaries?I contacted the maintainer of the uuid-package and he fixed the issue in the current release, so everythings fine now. and: everything compiled beautifully.
But to answer your question: I tend to rather compile things myself if I don't find them (or a current enough version) in the repos - but that's purely personal.