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Some way to apply a constraint on the command line to build-tool-depends #10375

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geekosaur opened this issue Sep 19, 2024 · 2 comments
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cabal-install: solver re: build-tool Concerning `build-tools` and `build-tool-depends` type: enhancement

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Describe the feature request
--constraint only applies to libraries. There's no equivalent mechanism for build tools.

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happy-2.0 was just released, and breaks haskell-lib-parser and probably other things (and possibly is just straight-up broken). Until its constraint can be adjusted or a fixed happy is released, there needs to be some way to constrain it to avoid the breakage without making it a local source or editing cabal.project (which may be in CI, or you aren't doing an install within a project).

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grayjay commented Sep 20, 2024

I think that this issue is part of #3502. Is it possible to work around the specific issue with happy by using any.happy, or do you need to only constrain a specific use of the build tool?

@grayjay grayjay added cabal-install: solver re: build-tool Concerning `build-tools` and `build-tool-depends` labels Sep 20, 2024
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I'm uncertain. It didn't attempt to build the library, whereas it did when I let it use happy-2.0, so I guess that's a good sign.

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