How to build hackage server 0.5.1 on Ubuntu in AWS

build-hackage-server.txt

# Launch and log into a Ubuntu 16.04 instance in AWS


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gcc libgmp-dev libicu-dev zlib1g-dev libtinfo-dev libssl-dev

download='https://www.haskell.org/platform/download/8.2.2/haskell-platform-8.2.2-unknown-posix--core-x86_64.tar.gz'
wget "$download" -O platform.tgz
tar -xzvf platform.tgz
sudo ./install-haskell-platform.sh
cabal update
cabal --version
ghc --version


git clone https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/
cd hackage-server

# edit cabal.project and get rid of allow-newer field
sed -e 's/allow-newer/-- allow-newer/' -i cabal.project

time cabal new-build -j

host="actual-host.compute-1.amazonaws.com"

./dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.2.2/hackage-server-0.5.1/c/hackage-server/build/hackage-server/hackage-server init --static-dir $(pwd)/datafiles
./dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.2.2/hackage-server-0.5.1/c/hackage-server/build/hackage-server/hackage-server run --static-dir $(pwd)/datafiles --base-uri=http://${host}:8080/ --ip=0.0.0.0