See process on Hackage for more information.

Installing from Git

To build this package using Cabal directly from Git, you must run autoreconf -i before the usual Cabal build steps (cabal {configure,build,install}). The program autoreconf is part of GNU autoconf. There is no need to run the configure script: cabal configure will do this for you.

Maintainers

Some generated files not tracked in the git repository are included in a source (sdist) distribution, including include/HsProcessConfig.h.in and configure. Maintainers who are producing a release of process, for example to upload to Hackage, should ensure that they run the following to generate fresh files:

git clean -fxd
autoconf -i

(WARNING: git clean -fxd will delete all untracked files in the repo)

To make the release process more observable and less dependent on the system of the maintainer, there's a workflow creating an sdist.

This sdist ought to be generated as follows:

• navigate to the "prepare release artifacts" workflow
• click through to the workflow run you want to create an sdist for. Or, if none was created automatically then launch a run using the "workflow_dispatch event trigger" that you will find there.
• carefully sanity check the output of the "smoketest" jobs in github UI. These can also be downloaded as an artifact for local inspection. A sanity check would e.g. entail look at whether posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is present
• afterwards, download the sdist from the release page by clicking on "Summary", scrolling to the bottom of the page, then downloading the sdist. Upload it as a candidate and proceed as usual.