Add optdepends=(ghc-static)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 3ac54ad399fa..9129847924b4 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Maintainer: Phil Ruffwind <rf@rufflewind.com>
 pkgname=ghc-pristine
 pkgver=8.6.3
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="Symlinks to GHC with only boot libs, useful for building static binaries"
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="Symlinks to GHC with only boot libs, useful for building static binaries (see PKGBUILD for details)"
 arch=(any)
 url=https://www.haskell.org/ghc/
 license=(custom)
 depends=(ghc)
+optdepends=("ghc-static: needed to build static binaries")
 
 # This package provides symbolic links to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, but
 # with the global package database restricted to only boot libraries.  This is
@@ -14,8 +15,15 @@ depends=(ghc)
 # the official haskell-* packages, which only offer dynamic libraries and
 # makes cabal hopelessly confused.
 #
-# To use this package, you just need to configure cabal
+# See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell#Static_linking
+#
+# To use this package, make sure ghc-static is installed and the flag
 # --with-compiler=/usr/share/ghc-pristine/bin/ghc
+# is passed to all cabal invocations.  You can also add this to your
+# ~/.cabal/config file.
+#
+# For cabal new-builds, you just need to run this command once:
+# cabal v2-configure --with-compiler=/usr/share/ghc-pristine/bin/ghc
 
 pkgver() {
     ghc --version | sed -n 's/^.*version \([0-9.]*\)/\1/p'