Installing Haskell packages through Nix

Question

Specifically, I'm trying to install Haste through nix.

I can see a hasteCompiler entry in nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix, and the appropriate .nix file in nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/haste-compiler/ but I'm not sure how to install it. Specifically, none of

nix-env -i haste
nix-env -i haste-compiler
nix-env -i haskell-haste-compiler

do what I want, and nix-env -qa doesn't list anything containing the substring haste as an available package.

Any thoughts?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '15 at 21:19

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haste-compiler is marked "broken":

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/37b1a0b79abd1d02d5618417b951cf02ef4f6a49

To override, put this in your .nixpkgs/config.nix:

allowBroken = true;

answered Feb 10 '15 at 21:19

Itai Zukerman

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Try it out; see what happens. – Itai Zukerman Feb 10 '15 at 21:40
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Hm. It installs, then complains that it isn't booted, then fails with a cryptic error code when I try to boot it. That's a different problem though. – Inaimathi Feb 10 '15 at 21:57

Installing Haskell packages through Nix

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