`cabal-install` could print every missing library that is missing from `pkg-config` in one go
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cabal-install: solver
re: pkg-config
re: user experience
type: enhancement
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- Haskell
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Description
I recently provisioned a big app on a new machine and it took several iterations of `cabal build` before it complained about every missing library in `pkg-config`. I am not familiar with how the solver knows things, but could it not print one message with *all* the missing libraries?
cc @grayjay (you are my solver expertjl)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the repeated `cabal build` behavior with a project that has multiple missing libraries in `pkg-config`, then trace how the solver reports missing libraries. Done means `cabal-install` reports all missing libraries in one run, with regression coverage for the diagnostic.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100