> > I would recommend —allow-newer rather than rebuilding with 9.4. In > retrospect, 9.4 implies base == 4.17, but nofib seems to only allow < 4.17, > which would leave 9.4 out.
Oh wow -- so there is *no* version of GHC that works as a bootstrap GHC. That seems bad. Very bad. I see a patch from Andreas -- maybe that fixes it? Meanwhile, --allow-newer I guess. Simon On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 12:50, Rodrigo Mesquita <rodrigo.m.mesqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would recommend —allow-newer rather than rebuilding with 9.4. In > retrospect, 9.4 implies base == 4.17, but nofib seems to only allow < 4.17, > which would leave 9.4 out. > > Rodrigo > > On 12 Jul 2023, at 12:48, Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks. That is very unfortunate: ./configure does not issue any > complaint. > > I upgraded from 9.2 because GHC won't compile with 9.2 any more. But now > you are saying that nofib won't build with 9.6? So that leaves 9.4 only. > > Well I can install 9.4 and rebuild everything. But really, it would be > good if configure complained if you are using a boot compiler that won't > work. That's what configure is for! > > Simon > > On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 12:41, Rodrigo Mesquita < > rodrigo.m.mesqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From the error message it looks like you’re using ghc-9.6(and base 4.18) >> while nofib requires base < 4.17. >> I’d say as a temporary workaround you can likely run your invocation >> additionally with —allow-newer, and hope that doesn’t break. Otherwise you >> could downgrade to 9.4 or bump the version manually in the cabal file of >> nofib? >> >> Rodrigo >> >> On 12 Jul 2023, at 12:38, Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Friends >> >> With a clean HEAD I can't build nofib. See below. What should I do? >> >> Thanks >> >> Simon >> >> (cd nofib; cabal v2-run -- nofib-run >> --compiler=`pwd`/../_build/stage1/bin/ghc --output=`date -I`) >> Resolving dependencies... >> Error: cabal: Could not resolve dependencies: >> [__0] trying: nofib-0.1.0.0 (user goal) >> [__1] next goal: base (dependency of nofib) >> [__1] rejecting: base-4.18.0.0/installed-4.18.0.0 (conflict: nofib => >> base>=4.5 && <4.17) >> [__1] skipping: base-4.18.0.0, base-4.17.1.0, base-4.17.0.0 (has the same >> characteristics that caused the previous version to fail: excluded by >> constraint '>=4.5 && <4.17' from 'nofib') >> [__1] rejecting: base-4.16.4.0, base-4.16.3.0, base-4.16.2.0, >> base-4.16.1.0, >> base-4.16.0.0, base-4.15.1.0, base-4.15.0.0, base-4.14.3.0, base-4.14.2.0, >> base-4.14.1.0, base-4.14.0.0, base-4.13.0.0, base-4.12.0.0, base-4.11.1.0, >> base-4.11.0.0, base-4.10.1.0, base-4.10.0.0, base-4.9.1.0, base-4.9.0.0, >> base-4.8.2.0, base-4.8.1.0, base-4.8.0.0, base-4.7.0.2, base-4.7.0.1, >> base-4.7.0.0, base-4.6.0.1, base-4.6.0.0, base-4.5.1.0, base-4.5.0.0, >> base-4.4.1.0, base-4.4.0.0, base-4.3.1.0, base-4.3.0.0, base-4.2.0.2, >> base-4.2.0.1, base-4.2.0.0, base-4.1.0.0, base-4.0.0.0, base-3.0.3.2, >> base-3.0.3.1 (constraint from non-upgradeable package requires installed >> instance) >> [__1] fail (backjumping, conflict set: base, nofib) >> After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively, these were >> the >> goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: base, nofib >> >> make: *** [/home/simonpj/code/Makefile-spj:39: nofib] Error 1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >> >
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