[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install build of scion-browser 0.2.18 fails when linking Persistent-sqlite1.21
Hi I'm a Haskell newbie. I just installed Haskell on Windows 7 x64 (Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 containing GHC 7.6.3), and have been using cabal-install to build/install from Hackage all the helper executables required and/or supported by EclipseFP, the Eclipse Haskell Plugin. All the helper exe's installed without any issues, except for one: scion-browser 0.2.18. All its dependencies seemed to build fine, and it built fine up until the near the end of the link phase when the link to Persistent-sqlite 1.2.1 failed. Here is the error message (path information elided): Loading package persistent-sqlite-1.2.1 ... ghc.exe: *Unknown PEi386 section name `.drectve'* (while processing:\persistent-sqlite-1.2.1\libHSpersistent-sqlite-1.2.1.a) ghc.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.6.3 for i386-unknown-mingw32): loadArchive persistent-sqlite-1.2.1\libHSpersistent-sqlite-1.2.1.a: failed Failed to install scion-browser-0.2.18 I understand what the message is saying, but I don't know how to go about resolving it. I have of course cleaned and retried a few times. But I get the same error. Any and all suggestions on how to resolve or work around this issue so that I can provide EclipseFP with a usable scion-browser, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nzwrote: On 11/04/2013, at 12:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: Xcode 4.2 and on do not use /Developer at all. You have an older Xcode on your system somehow, which does not understand newer object files; you should remove the entire /Developer tree. (Xcode, in order to be distributable via the App Store, is completely self-contained in /Applications/Xcode.app.) Unfortunately, I cannot. I _am_ able to install stuff, but uninstalling generally gives me problems, and removing /Developer is something I'm not allowed to do. I think you need to discuss that with whoever made that dictum; requiring that a system be broken is not generally a good idea. Many software packages will find it and use outdated programs or frameworks as a result. It really needs to not be there at all. (Newer Xcode should actually complain and tell you to run the removal script on startup, because its presence can even break Xcode under some circumstances.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
The basic problem is that the University has a strict policy that academic staff must not have root access on any machine that is connected to the University network. I was given an administrator account so that I could resume the printer and install (some) stuff, but /Developer is owned by root, and I will be given root access on the Greek Calends. I would have thought that many organisations would have similar policies. On 12/04/2013, at 2:44 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: (Newer Xcode should actually complain and tell you to run the removal script on startup, because its presence can even break Xcode under some circumstances.) 4.6.1 was the latest available in March when I installed it, and it _didn't_ complain or tell me to run any removal script. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nzwrote: The basic problem is that the University has a strict policy that academic staff must not have root access on any machine that is connected to the University network. I was given an administrator account so that I could resume the printer and install (some) stuff, but /Developer is owned by root, and I will be given root access on the Greek Calends. I would have thought that many organisations would have similar policies. Well, yes (I was one of those admins, although not at your university, for many years), but if they are installing machines with both Xcode 4.6 under /Applications and Xcode 4.1 or earlier under /Developer, they are installing broken machines that will fail to build many packages and where Xcode may malfunction. /Developer should not exist on a machine with Xcode 4.2 or later installed, at all. You should contact an administrator about this and have them fix both installed machines and their installation images or maintenance routines (whatever they went with for OS X). sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all If they need an official reference on this, I can dig up the relevant Apple knowledge base article. On 12/04/2013, at 2:44 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: (Newer Xcode should actually complain and tell you to run the removal script on startup, because its presence can even break Xcode under some circumstances.) 4.6.1 was the latest available in March when I installed it, and it _didn't_ complain or tell me to run any removal script. I have heard that it is sometimes inconsistent about this; sadly, just because it didn't notice the older version doesn't mean the older version won't cause breakage. (As you saw.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: /Developer should not exist on a machine with Xcode 4.2 or later installed, at all. Unfortunately this is not completely true - there are some SDKs that still install stuff in /Developer (NVIDIA comes to mind) but it's pretty obvious that it's not XCode-related. Just because you have /Developer present doesn't mean you're harboring an old XCode. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
Machine:an Intel Core 2 Duo desktop Mac. OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 Xcode: 4.6.1 (including command line tools) Haskell:Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0 64bit.pkg downloaded today (GHC 7.4.2) cabal update advised me to install a new cabal-install. m% cabal install cabal-install Resolving dependencies... Downloading Cabal-1.16.0.3... [ 1 of 65] Compiling Distribution.Compat.Exception ( /var/folders/_n/5bc02hb51d361crtq41g_gc4000g8p/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-85340/Cabal-1.16.0.3/Distribution/Compat/Exception.hs, /var/folders/_n/5bc02hb51d361crtq41g_gc4000g8p/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-85340/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup/Distribution/Compat/Exception.o ) snip [52 of 67] Compiling Distribution.Simple.Build.PathsModule ( Distribution/Simple/Build/PathsModule.hs, dist/build/Distribution/Simple/Build/PathsModule.o ) Distribution/Simple/Build/PathsModule.hs:210:19: Warning: Pattern match(es) are non-exhaustive In a case alternative: Patterns not matched: PPC PPC64 Sparc Arm ... [53 of 67] Compiling Distribution.Simple.GHC ( Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs, dist/build/Distribution/Simple/GHC.o ) snip [65 of 65] Compiling Main ( /var/folders/_n/5bc02hb51d361crtq41g_gc4000g8p/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-85340/Cabal-1.16.0.3/Setup.hs, /var/folders/_n/5bc02hb51d361crtq41g_gc4000g8p/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-85340/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup/Main.o ) Linking /var/folders/_n/5bc02hb51d361crtq41g_gc4000g8p/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-85340/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup/setup ... Configuring Cabal-1.16.0.3... Building Cabal-1.16.0.3... Preprocessing library Cabal-1.16.0.3... [ 1 of 67] Compiling Paths_Cabal ( dist/build/autogen/Paths_Cabal.hs, dist/build/Paths_Cabal.o ) snip [56 of 65] Compiling Distribution.Client.SetupWrapper ( Distribution/Client/SetupWrapper.hs, dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Distribution/Client/SetupWrapper.o ) Distribution/Client/SetupWrapper.hs:51:12: Warning: In the use of `ghcVerbosityOptions' (imported from Distribution.Simple.GHC): Deprecated: Use the GhcOptions record instead [57 of 65] Compiling Distribution.Client.Upload ( Distribution/Client/Upload.hs, dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Distribution/Client/Upload.o ) snip [65 of 65] Compiling Main ( Main.hs, dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Main.o ) Linking dist/build/cabal/cabal ... Installing executable(s) in /home/cshome/o/ok/.cabal/bin /Developer/usr/bin/strip: object: /home/cshome/o/ok/.cabal/bin/cabal malformed object (unknown load command 15) cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: cabal-install-1.16.0.2 failed during the final install step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 m% file ~/.cabal/bin/cabal /home/cshome/o/ok/.cabal/bin/cabal: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 The strip(1) page ends with this, which may be relevant: LIMITATIONS Not every layout of a Mach-O file can be stripped by this program. But all layouts produced by the Apple compiler system can be stripped. m% otool -l ~/.cabal/bin/cabal snip Load command 14 cmd LC_FUNCTION_STARTS cmdsize 16 dataoff 12743064 datasize 204136 Load command 15 cmd ?(0x0029) Unknown load command cmdsize 16 00c58f00 So something is definitely putting something in there that the Xcode 4.6.1 tools do not like. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nzwrote: /Developer/usr/bin/strip: object: /home/cshome/o/ok/.cabal/bin/cabal malformed object (unknown load command 15) Xcode 4.2 and on do not use /Developer at all. You have an older Xcode on your system somehow, which does not understand newer object files; you should remove the entire /Developer tree. (Xcode, in order to be distributable via the App Store, is completely self-contained in /Applications/Xcode.app.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install 1.16.0.2 on Mac
On 11/04/2013, at 12:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: Xcode 4.2 and on do not use /Developer at all. You have an older Xcode on your system somehow, which does not understand newer object files; you should remove the entire /Developer tree. (Xcode, in order to be distributable via the App Store, is completely self-contained in /Applications/Xcode.app.) Unfortunately, I cannot. I _am_ able to install stuff, but uninstalling generally gives me problems, and removing /Developer is something I'm not allowed to do. However, putting /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin at the front of my $PATH seems to do the job. Thanks. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install pandoc
Hello Albert, On 04/01/2013 11:41 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: On 13-04-01 06:26 AM, Roger Mason wrote: It turned out that there was a stale version of 'array' lurking in the ghc package db. In spite of reinstalling ghc it did not go away until I unregistered it. I think it was persisting because re-installing ghc simply unpacked over the old directory leaving that pre-existing file intact. See my http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml for how does GHC know or not know what libs you have. In particular, it has very little to do with files, and clearing GHC is only half the story. And how to have the same kind of problems recur in the future. Thank you. I have read and filed away the article for future reference. I guess the best (least error prone) method of installing ghc and packages is to obtain a binary ghc (outside one's package manager), build haskell platform and then maintain ghc and packages outside the distro package manager. Comments welcome. Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
Hello Brent, On 03/31/2013 04:53 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote: It looks like your entire Haskell Platform installation is completely hosed. Sad to say, but I think your best bet is to simply reinstall the Haskell Platform. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe It turned out that there was a stale version of 'array' lurking in the ghc package db. In spite of reinstalling ghc it did not go away until I unregistered it. I think it was persisting because re-installing ghc simply unpacked over the old directory leaving that pre-existing file intact. 'ghc-pkg check' shows no errors and I have successfully installed pandoc and some other packages. Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
On 13-04-01 06:26 AM, Roger Mason wrote: It turned out that there was a stale version of 'array' lurking in the ghc package db. In spite of reinstalling ghc it did not go away until I unregistered it. I think it was persisting because re-installing ghc simply unpacked over the old directory leaving that pre-existing file intact. See my http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml for how does GHC know or not know what libs you have. In particular, it has very little to do with files, and clearing GHC is only half the story. And how to have the same kind of problems recur in the future. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 08:05:47AM -0230, Roger Mason wrote: Thank you for your response. 'ghc-pkg check' shows some problems: http://pastebin.ca/2344794 On 03/28/2013 08:01 PM, Patrick Wheeler wrote: So I printed off the requirements for pandoc on a empty ghc-7.6.2 install you can find it at: http://hpaste.org/84794 I do not see any odd package versions listed in what you posted so far. No promise I will be able to help afterwards but it might help to see the full log, and then again with verbosity turned on. So seperate pastes for: * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run` * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run --verbose=2` * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run --verbose=3` You might also want to run a `ghc-pkg check` to check to see if your packages are consistent/unbroken. 'ghc-pkg check' shows some problems: http://pastebin.ca/2344794 It looks like your entire Haskell Platform installation is completely hosed. Sad to say, but I think your best bet is to simply reinstall the Haskell Platform. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:08:46 +0100, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: I installed ghc (7.6.2) on an Arch Linux machine. I'm trying to install pandoc via cabal but it fails: ... Configuring text-0.11.2.3... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package deepseq-1.3.0.1 requires array-0.4.0.1 package text-0.11.2.3 requires array-0.4.0.1 Building text-0.11.2.3... Preprocessing library text-0.11.2.3... command line: cannot satisfy -package-id array-0.4.0.1-db49bb8b0087ae85b5875d4c0cc12874 (use -v for more information) Failed to install text-0.11.2.3 ... I had something similar with Ubuntu (before there was a binary package available for this platform); I installed several packages, that gave such message, again. That solved it. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming -- ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
Thank you for your response. 'ghc-pkg check' shows some problems: http://pastebin.ca/2344794 On 03/28/2013 08:01 PM, Patrick Wheeler wrote: So I printed off the requirements for pandoc on a empty ghc-7.6.2 install you can find it at: http://hpaste.org/84794 I do not see any odd package versions listed in what you posted so far. No promise I will be able to help afterwards but it might help to see the full log, and then again with verbosity turned on. So seperate pastes for: * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run` * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run --verbose=2` * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run --verbose=3` You might also want to run a `ghc-pkg check` to check to see if your packages are consistent/unbroken. 'ghc-pkg check' shows some problems: http://pastebin.ca/2344794 Thanks for any help you can offer. Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
Hello, On 03/29/2013 06:47 AM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:08:46 +0100, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: I installed ghc (7.6.2) on an Arch Linux machine. I'm trying to install pandoc via cabal but it fails: ... Configuring text-0.11.2.3... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package deepseq-1.3.0.1 requires array-0.4.0.1 package text-0.11.2.3 requires array-0.4.0.1 Building text-0.11.2.3... Preprocessing library text-0.11.2.3... command line: cannot satisfy -package-id array-0.4.0.1-db49bb8b0087ae85b5875d4c0cc12874 (use -v for more information) Failed to install text-0.11.2.3 ... I had something similar with Ubuntu (before there was a binary package available for this platform); I installed several packages, that gave such message, again. That solved it. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl It appears in my case that cabal may be looking in a strange place for installed pacckages. At least, that is how I interpret the output I just pasted here: http://pastebin.ca/2344794 Thanks, Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc [solved]
Hello, On 03/29/2013 08:13 AM, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, It appears in my case that cabal may be looking in a strange place for installed pacckages. At least, that is how I interpret the output I just pasted here: http://pastebin.ca/2344794 Thanks, Roger ghc-pkg check showed that there were problems with 'array'. ghc-pkg unregister and a fresh installation of ghc and cabal-install have fixed the problem. Thanks to all who responded. Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
Hello, I installed ghc (7.6.2) on an Arch Linux machine. I'm trying to install pandoc via cabal but it fails: ... Configuring text-0.11.2.3... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package deepseq-1.3.0.1 requires array-0.4.0.1 package text-0.11.2.3 requires array-0.4.0.1 Building text-0.11.2.3... Preprocessing library text-0.11.2.3... command line: cannot satisfy -package-id array-0.4.0.1-db49bb8b0087ae85b5875d4c0cc12874 (use -v for more information) Failed to install text-0.11.2.3 ... There are then errors for other packages that depend on 'text' or 'array'. I will be grateful for any help. Thanks, Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
To side step the issue, Pandoc is available via the ArchHaskell repos (package name `haskell-pandoc`): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines -M ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
hello, On 03/28/2013 04:11 PM, Mark Fredrickson wrote: To side step the issue, Pandoc is available via the ArchHaskell repos (package name `haskell-pandoc`): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines -M Yes, I know. I wanted to avoid having a mixture of packages installed by pacman and others (not available in the repo) installed using cabal. Thanks, Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install pandoc
So I printed off the requirements for pandoc on a empty ghc-7.6.2 install you can find it at: http://hpaste.org/84794 I do not see any odd package versions listed in what you posted so far. No promise I will be able to help afterwards but it might help to see the full log, and then again with verbosity turned on. So seperate pastes for: * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run` * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run --verbose=2` * `cabal install pandoc --dry-run --verbose=3` You might also want to run a `ghc-pkg check` to check to see if your packages are consistent/unbroken. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: hello, On 03/28/2013 04:11 PM, Mark Fredrickson wrote: To side step the issue, Pandoc is available via the ArchHaskell repos (package name `haskell-pandoc`): https://wiki.archlinux.org/**index.php/Haskell_package_**guidelineshttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines -M Yes, I know. I wanted to avoid having a mixture of packages installed by pacman and others (not available in the repo) installed using cabal. Thanks, Roger This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/**electronic_communications_** disclaimer_2012.phphttp://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php __**_ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafehttp://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Patrick Wheeler patrick.john.whee...@gmail.com patrick.j.whee...@rice.edu patrick.whee...@colorado.edu ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install oddities
Hi all, I'm having some strange issues with cabal install. Some packages installed via `cabal install $foo` are failing for strange (and seemingly unrelated) reasons, but install just fine when I do something like: cabal unpack network cd network cabal configure cabal install Below is some sample output from a failing package: ps168825:~/playground$ cabal install network Resolving dependencies... Configuring network-2.4.1.2... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/tmp/network-2.4.1.2-28534/network-2.4.1.2': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details Failed to install network-2.4.1.2 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: network-2.4.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 ps168825:~/playground 1$ cabal --version cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library ps168825:~/playground$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.2 /tmp/network-* doesn't exist (which is why I tried unpack, but unfortunately that succeeds). Any thoughts on how I can debug this? Thanks, \t ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install oddities
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Tycho Andersen ty...@tycho.ws wrote: Below is some sample output from a failing package: ps168825:~/playground$ cabal install network Resolving dependencies... Configuring network-2.4.1.2... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/tmp/network-2.4.1.2-28534/network-2.4.1.2': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. cabal install unpacks a package into /tmp in order to build it. My guess is your OS has /tmp mounted noexec. I don't know offhand how you override this in cabal. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install oddities
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:28:08PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: cabal install unpacks a package into /tmp in order to build it. My guess is your OS has /tmp mounted noexec. I don't know offhand how you override this in cabal. Yep, you're exactly right. Thank you! I also couldn't figure out a way to override it. \t ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
Doesn't Cabal tend to install library packages under the .cabal folder? So blowing it away gets rid of the problematic ones. (And everything else.) On 25 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 02:33:55PM +, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: You are right, my ghc-7.4.2 was broken in ghc-pkg list; I fixed the problem by killing my .cabal folder (as so often). Surely you mean by killing your .ghc folder? I do not see what effect killing your .cabal folder could possibly have on broken packages. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
On 13-03-01 05:10 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Doesn't Cabal tend to install library packages under the .cabal folder? So blowing it away gets rid of the problematic ones. (And everything else.) You need to perform scientific experiments to refute that claim, then see my http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml#ident then perform more scientific experiments to try to refute my claim (and see that my claim passes your scrutiny). ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote: On 13-03-01 05:10 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Doesn't Cabal tend to install library packages under the .cabal folder? So blowing it away gets rid of the problematic ones. (And everything else.) You need to perform scientific experiments to refute that claim, then see my At least some versions of cabal-install do put the actual library install trees under .cabal/lib, then register them under .ghc. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 02:33:55PM +, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: You are right, my ghc-7.4.2 was broken in ghc-pkg list; I fixed the problem by killing my .cabal folder (as so often). Surely you mean by killing your .ghc folder? I do not see what effect killing your .cabal folder could possibly have on broken packages. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
Yep, I usually kill ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal for this kind of reset. On Mon 25 Feb 2013 16:56:56 GMT, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 02:33:55PM +, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: You are right, my ghc-7.4.2 was broken in ghc-pkg list; I fixed the problem by killing my .cabal folder (as so often). Surely you mean by killing your .ghc folder? I do not see what effect killing your .cabal folder could possibly have on broken packages. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
You are right, my ghc-7.4.2 was broken in ghc-pkg list; I fixed the problem by killing my .cabal folder (as so often). Do you know if it is possible to make ghc-pkg list print some actual text when packages are broken instead of writing them in red (which goes away on output redirection)? Thanks Niklas On 24/02/13 07:34, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Which version of GHC (and hence base, etc.)? My guess is that for some reason it thinks that some requirement of the later versions is incompatible with your version of GHC. Maybe explicitly try cabal install 'ghc-mod = 1.11.4' and see why it doesn't like it. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
On 25 February 2013 01:33, Niklas Hambüchen m...@nh2.me wrote: You are right, my ghc-7.4.2 was broken in ghc-pkg list; I fixed the problem by killing my .cabal folder (as so often). Do you know if it is possible to make ghc-pkg list print some actual text when packages are broken instead of writing them in red (which goes away on output redirection)? Just run ghc-pkg check every now and then? Thanks Niklas On 24/02/13 07:34, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Which version of GHC (and hence base, etc.)? My guess is that for some reason it thinks that some requirement of the later versions is incompatible with your version of GHC. Maybe explicitly try cabal install 'ghc-mod = 1.11.4' and see why it doesn't like it. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
Hi, I just did cabal update and cabal install ghc-mod, and for some reason it tries to install version 0.3.0 from 3 years ago: cabal install ghc-mod -v Reading available packages... Choosing modular solver. Resolving dependencies... Ready to install ghc-mod-0.3.0 Downloading ghc-mod-0.3.0... cabal --version cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0.3 of the Cabal library Does anyone have an idea why that could be? Thanks ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version
On 24 February 2013 12:38, Niklas Hambüchen m...@nh2.me wrote: Hi, I just did cabal update and cabal install ghc-mod, and for some reason it tries to install version 0.3.0 from 3 years ago: cabal install ghc-mod -v Reading available packages... Choosing modular solver. Resolving dependencies... Ready to install ghc-mod-0.3.0 Downloading ghc-mod-0.3.0... cabal --version cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0.3 of the Cabal library Does anyone have an idea why that could be? Which version of GHC (and hence base, etc.)? My guess is that for some reason it thinks that some requirement of the later versions is incompatible with your version of GHC. Maybe explicitly try cabal install 'ghc-mod = 1.11.4' and see why it doesn't like it. Thanks ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install choosing an older version
Hi Ozgur, I'm missing some context here, but I'll release an updated version of hspec ASAP ;) Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install choosing an older version
Hi, I noticed a weird behaviour with cabal-install. When I run `cabal install hspec --dry-run -v` cabal-install correctly picks hspec-1.4.3 (the latest version). However, when I run `cabal install ansi-terminal hspec --dry-run -v`cabal-install tries to install hspec-0.3.0 for no apparent reason. This is with a clean user package db. Following is some info about my system. $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.1 $ cabal --version cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0.3 of the Cabal library $ ghc-pkg list --user $ cabal install hspec --dry-run -v Reading available packages... Choosing modular solver. Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed: HUnit-1.2.5.1 (new package) ansi-terminal-0.5.5.1 (new package) hspec-expectations-0.3.0.3 (new package) random-1.0.1.1 (new package) QuickCheck-2.5.1.1 (new package) setenv-0.1.0 (new package) silently-1.2.4.1 (new package) transformers-0.3.0.0 (new package) hspec-1.4.3 (new package) $ cabal install ansi-terminal hspec --dry-run -v Reading available packages... Choosing modular solver. Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed: HUnit-1.2.5.1 (new package) ansi-terminal-0.6 (new package) extensible-exceptions-0.1.1.4 (new package) random-1.0.1.1 (new package) QuickCheck-2.5 (new package) hspec-0.3.0 (new package) -- Ozgur Akgun ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install choosing an older version
Aha! I think I know why this happens. The latest versions of ansi-terminal and hspec do not work together. Cabal picks the latest ansi-terminal (0.6) first, then the latest hspec that doesn't conflict with this choice is 0.3.0. I can confirm this by the following: $ cabal install hspec ansi-terminal --dry-run -v Reading available packages... Choosing modular solver. Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed: HUnit-1.2.5.1 (new package) ansi-terminal-0.5.5.1 (new package) hspec-expectations-0.3.0.3 (new package) random-1.0.1.1 (new package) QuickCheck-2.5.1.1 (new package) setenv-0.1.0 (new package) silently-1.2.4.1 (new package) transformers-0.3.0.0 (new package) hspec-1.4.3 (new package) When hspec comes before ansi-terminal, the latest version for hspec is selected and an older version of ansi-terminal is used. Maybe cabal-install should backtrack more and pick a *more optimal *set of latest versions, I don't know. If this is desired, a proximity of the selected versions to the latest available versions might be a good measure. Best, Ozgur ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install choosing an older version
On 25 January 2013 14:46, Ozgur Akgun ozgurak...@gmail.com wrote: The latest versions of ansi-terminal and hspec do not work together. Cabal picks the latest ansi-terminal (0.6) first, then the latest hspec that doesn't conflict with this choice is 0.3.0. If this happens because the dependency bounds of ansi-terminal are too tight then please send me a patch. Cheers, Max ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install choosing an older version
Hi Max, On 25 January 2013 15:58, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.comwrote: If this happens because the dependency bounds of ansi-terminal are too tight then please send me a patch. No, actually it happens because hspec depends on ansi-terminal-0.5.*. I am cc'ing Simon Hengel, the maintainer of hspec so he is aware of this. Best, Ozgur ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install...
The latest version of cabal-dev on Hackage does not seem to have had its dependencies updated for GHC 7.6. Try installing off github (https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev). Ian Sturdy From: haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org [haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] on behalf of Eric Velten de Melo [ericvm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:54 PM To: Johan Tibell Cc: Gregory Guthrie; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... I have a dream of one day being able to install leksah without having to downgrade ghc. Right now I can't even install cabal-dev with cabal. It will break ghc if I do. 2012/11/20 Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: Hmm, Now when I tried to run Leksah, I get not only some broken packages (which I can avoid for my current project), but: command line: cannot satisfy -package-id base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917: base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies: integer-gmp-0.4.0.0-c15e185526893c3119f809251aac8c5b (use -v for more information) So I tried to install base, then re-install it, but both fail; Any hints? From this email and some of the previous emails it seems that your package DB is in a pretty bad state, most likely from using --force-reinstalls. When Cabal warns you that this will break stuff it actually means it. :) My suggestion is that you rm -rf ~/.ghc/x86_64-linux-7.6.1 # or equivalent on your system. Then reinstall all the packages you want by listing them all at once cabal install pkg1 pkg2 pk3 By listing them all together cabal-install tries to come up with an install plan that is globally consistent for all of them. -- Johan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll do that. Here goes: I deleted the ../user/appdata/roaming/ghc and ../cabal files, an uninstalled Haskell-platform. (No trace of anything ghc on the disk.) Then reinstalled Haskell, and ran “cabal update”, it said there was a new cabal-install, but trying to install it fails (below), so I went ahead with the current version. The error seems odd to me (cabal-install-1.16.0.2 depends on Cabal-1.16.0.3 which failed to install.), that an older version depends on a newer one? So now I have; (from Windows - Haskell-platform 2012.4.0.0) GHCi = The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2 Cabal = cabal-install version 0.14.0, using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library I then tried to reload all my previous packages, (all at once?!), but it fails, out of memory (w/8GB of memory!) So I split it into sections, and tried the first one; it lists a lot of new installs, and then fails (full list at http://pastebin.com/5ywdUjgX) The first chunk of installs gives this: ... cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: QuickCheck-2.4.2 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway. I don't understand how it can want to break the Haskell-platform, sounds dangerous! And the second this: G:\Cabalcabal install Boolean Craft3e Craft3e GLFW GLURaw GLUT HTTP IORefCAS Me moTrie MonadCatchIO-mtl NumInstances ObjectName OpenGL OpenGLRaw QuickCheck SDL SHA StateVar Tensor abstract-deque abstract-par active aeson alex ansi-terminal array asn1-data attoparsec attoparsec-conduit base-unicode-symbols base64-bytest ring bits-atomic blaze-builder blaze-builder-conduit blaze-html blaze-markup bla ze-svg bmp buildwrapper byteorder cabal-dev case-insensitive cereal certificate clientsession cmdargs colour comonad conduit contravariant cookie cpphs cprng-ae s cpu criterion crypto-api crypto-conduit crypto-pubkey-types cryptocipher crypt ohash css-text data-default date-cache diagrams-core diagrams-lib diagrams-svg d list email-validate entropy erf failure fast-logger file-embed filepath filesyst em-conduit ghc-paths gloss gtk2hs-buildtools Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed: Boolean-0.1.1 (new package) ... cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: regex-posix-0.95.1 regex-compat-0.95.1 regex-posix-0.94.4 regex-compat-0.93.1 parsec-3.1.1 fgl-5.4.2.4 fgl-5.4.2.3 QuickCheck-2.4.0.1 network-2.3.1.0 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 cgi-3001.1.7.4 HTTP-4000.2.5 regex-posix-0.95.2 regex-compat-0.95.1 regex-posix-0.95.1 regex-compat-0.95.1 Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway. So I have a typical situation where it won't install, and gives an option to –force, but that seems to lead to more problems? Do I just have some packages which are intrinsically incompatible, and I have to choose between them? Not sure how to proceed. Any help or hints appreciated! :-) –––- Cabal install cabal-install Configuring Cabal-1.16.0.3... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package process-1.1.0.1 requires base-4.5.0.0 package pretty-1.1.1.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package old-time-1.1.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package old-locale-1.0.0.4 requires base-4.5.0.0 package filepath-1.3.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package directory-1.1.0.2 requires base-4.5.0.0 package deepseq-1.3.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package containers-0.4.2.1 requires base-4.5.0.0 package bytestring-0.9.2.1 requires base-4.5.0.0 package array-0.4.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package Win32-2.2.2.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package filepath-1.3.0.0 requires base-4.5.1.0 package Cabal-1.16.0.3 requires base-4.5.1.0 package Cabal-1.16.0.3 requires filepath-1.3.0.0 package process-1.1.0.1 requires filepath-1.3.0.0 package directory-1.1.0.2 requires filepath-1.3.0.0 package integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package bytestring-0.9.2.1 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package base-4.5.0.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package base-4.5.1.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package base-4.5.1.0 requires integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 package base-4.5.0.0 requires integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 Building Cabal-1.16.0.3... Preprocessing library Cabal-1.16.0.3... command line: cannot satisfy -package-id array-0.4.0.0-3cf1bc3f5cd0078adea24752c18081b9 (use -v for more information) cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: Cabal-1.16.0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 cabal-install-1.16.0.2 depends on Cabal-1.16.0.3 which failed to install. (more -v details at: http://pastebin.com/Y2BuMjBP )
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover
You should have a ghc directory under appdata, with i386-mingw32-7.4.2\package.conf.d under it. There GHC tracks what packages it knows about. Niklas From: Gregory Guthrie Sent: 2012-11-21 15:11 To: Johan Tibell Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll do that. Here goes: I deleted the ../user/appdata/roaming/ghc and ../cabal files, an uninstalled Haskell-platform. (No trace of anything ghc on the disk.) Then reinstalled Haskell, and ran “cabal update”, it said there was a new cabal-install, but trying to install it fails (below), so I went ahead with the current version. The error seems odd to me (cabal-install-1.16.0.2 depends on Cabal-1.16.0.3 which failed to install.), that an older version depends on a newer one? So now I have; (from Windows - Haskell-platform 2012.4.0.0) GHCi = The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2 Cabal = cabal-install version 0.14.0, using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library I then tried to reload all my previous packages, (all at once?!), but it fails, out of memory (w/8GB of memory!) So I split it into sections, and tried the first one; it lists a lot of new installs, and then fails (full list at http://pastebin.com/5ywdUjgX) The first chunk of installs gives this: ... cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: QuickCheck-2.4.2 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway. I don't understand how it can want to break the Haskell-platform, sounds dangerous! And the second this: G:\Cabalcabal install Boolean Craft3e Craft3e GLFW GLURaw GLUT HTTP IORefCAS Me moTrie MonadCatchIO-mtl NumInstances ObjectName OpenGL OpenGLRaw QuickCheck SDL SHA StateVar Tensor abstract-deque abstract-par active aeson alex ansi-terminal array asn1-data attoparsec attoparsec-conduit base-unicode-symbols base64-bytest ring bits-atomic blaze-builder blaze-builder-conduit blaze-html blaze-markup bla ze-svg bmp buildwrapper byteorder cabal-dev case-insensitive cereal certificate clientsession cmdargs colour comonad conduit contravariant cookie cpphs cprng-ae s cpu criterion crypto-api crypto-conduit crypto-pubkey-types cryptocipher crypt ohash css-text data-default date-cache diagrams-core diagrams-lib diagrams-svg d list email-validate entropy erf failure fast-logger file-embed filepath filesyst em-conduit ghc-paths gloss gtk2hs-buildtools Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed: Boolean-0.1.1 (new package) ... cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: regex-posix-0.95.1 regex-compat-0.95.1 regex-posix-0.94.4 regex-compat-0.93.1 parsec-3.1.1 fgl-5.4.2.4 fgl-5.4.2.3 QuickCheck-2.4.0.1 network-2.3.1.0 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 cgi-3001.1.7.4 HTTP-4000.2.5 regex-posix-0.95.2 regex-compat-0.95.1 regex-posix-0.95.1 regex-compat-0.95.1 Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway. So I have a typical situation where it won't install, and gives an option to –force, but that seems to lead to more problems? Do I just have some packages which are intrinsically incompatible, and I have to choose between them? Not sure how to proceed. Any help or hints appreciated! :-) –––- Cabal install cabal-install Configuring Cabal-1.16.0.3... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package process-1.1.0.1 requires base-4.5.0.0 package pretty-1.1.1.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package old-time-1.1.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package old-locale-1.0.0.4 requires base-4.5.0.0 package filepath-1.3.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package directory-1.1.0.2 requires base-4.5.0.0 package deepseq-1.3.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package containers-0.4.2.1 requires base-4.5.0.0 package bytestring-0.9.2.1 requires base-4.5.0.0 package array-0.4.0.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package Win32-2.2.2.0 requires base-4.5.0.0 package filepath-1.3.0.0 requires base-4.5.1.0 package Cabal-1.16.0.3 requires base-4.5.1.0 package Cabal-1.16.0.3 requires filepath-1.3.0.0 package process-1.1.0.1 requires filepath-1.3.0.0 package directory-1.1.0.2 requires filepath-1.3.0.0 package integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package bytestring-0.9.2.1 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package base-4.5.0.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package base-4.5.1.0 requires ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 package base-4.5.1.0 requires integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 package base-4.5.0.0 requires integer-gmp-0.4.0.0 Building Cabal-1.16.0.3... Preprocessing library Cabal-1.16.0.3... command line: cannot satisfy -package-id array-0.4.0.0-3cf1bc3f5cd0078adea24752c18081b9 (use -v
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: The error seems odd to me (cabal-install-1.16.0.2 depends on Cabal-1.16.0.3 which failed to install.), that an older version depends on a newer one? There was a minor bug in the Cabal library necessitating a point release. cabal-install was unaffected; why make a new release just to have pretty versioning? I then tried to reload all my previous packages, (all at once?!), but it fails, out of memory (w/8GB of memory!) i386 or x86-64? 8GB isn't really 8GB on the former. So I split it into sections, and tried the first one; it lists a lot of new installs, and then fails (full list at http://pastebin.com/5ywdUjgX) You're explicitly asking it for a new version of HTTP, which is asking for trouble. More worrisome is that it's still asking for new versions of base, which means it's still confused about what version of ghc is installed. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover
OK; I took HTTP out, but still get the same error; cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: QuickCheck-2.4.2 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway. One thing I notice; Ghc reports: G:\Cabalghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2 But I did notice that I had an environment variable (from some previous install, I think openCV?) of: GHC_VERSION=7.4.1 So I updated that to 7.4.2 And retried, same results. But then, ghc-pkg check reports: The following packages are broken, either because they have a problem listed above, or because they depend on a broken package. HTTP-4000.2.3 haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0 I have no idea where the 2012.2 comes from. Any suggestions? --- From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover So I split it into sections, and tried the first one; it lists a lot of new installs, and then fails (full list at http://pastebin.com/5ywdUjgX) You're explicitly asking it for a new version of HTTP, which is asking for trouble. More worrisome is that it's still asking for new versions of base, which means it's still confused about what version of ghc is installed. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: OK; I took HTTP out, but still get the same error; cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: QuickCheck-2.4.2 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway. Right, that was not intended to be a complete fix or anything, just a note. This is the important part, and what I noted immediately afterward --- did you happen to notice there was anything in the message after that first part? (Although I'm not asking this first so it also may not actually exist, I guess) One thing I notice; Ghc reports: G:\Cabalghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2 ** ** But I did notice that I had an environment variable (from some previous install, I think openCV?) of: GHC_VERSION=7.4.1 So I updated that to 7.4.2 And retried, same results. There is more going on than just that environment variable; this is what the base stuff that you have been ignoring is trying to tell you. You still have both compilers installed, and their packages are somehow jumbled together. This is breaking your installation. Unfortunately, as I am neither particularly familiar with Windows nor able to access your system (which is probably for the best for both of us), I can't really help you with figuring out why you have two GHC versions' packages mixed together. But as long as you do, cabal will be trying to upgrade the base package, which is the actual source of the breakage. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover
Thanks. I’ll try to do another cleanup, but not sure what more I can uninstall or clean out! I did a system search for *ghc* and came up empty before reinstall; will try again. I have now managed to get from some broken packages to a broken system! ☺ --- Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover This is the important part, and what I noted immediately afterward --- did you happen to notice there was anything in the message after that first part? (Although I'm not asking this first so it also may not actually exist, I guess) One thing I notice; Ghc reports: G:\Cabalghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2 There is more going on than just that environment variable; this is what the base stuff that you have been ignoring is trying to tell you. You still have both compilers installed, and their packages are somehow jumbled together. This is breaking your installation. Unfortunately, as I am neither particularly familiar with Windows nor able to access your system (which is probably for the best for both of us), I can't really help you with figuring out why you have two GHC versions' packages mixed together. But as long as you do, cabal will be trying to upgrade the base package, which is the actual source of the breakage. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install...
Hmm,
Now when I tried to run Leksah, I get not only some broken packages (which I
can avoid for my current project), but:
command line: cannot satisfy -package-id
base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917:
base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917 is unusable due to missing or
recursive dependencies:
integer-gmp-0.4.0.0-c15e185526893c3119f809251aac8c5b
(use -v for more information)
So I tried to install base, then re-install it, but both fail;
Any hints?
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C:\Users\guthriecabal install base
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
base-4.5.1.0
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
C:\Users\guthriecabal install --reinstall base
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
next goal: base (user goal)
rejecting: base-3.0.3.2 (conflict: base = base=4.0 4.3)
rejecting: base-3.0.3.1 (conflict: base = base=4.0 4.2)
rejecting: base-4.6.0.0, 4.5.1.0, 4.5.0.0, 4.4.1.0, 4.4.0.0, 4.3.1.0, 4.3.0.0,
4.2.0.2, 4.2.0.1, 4.2.0.0, 4.1.0.0, 4.0.0.0 (only already installed instances
can be used)
C:\Users\guthrieghc-pkg list base
WARNING: there are broken packages. Run 'ghc-pkg check' for more details.
e:/Plang/Haskell Platform\lib\package.conf.d:
base-4.3.1.0
base-4.5.0.0
base-4.5.1.0
The following packages are broken, either because they have a problem
listed above, or because they depend on a broken package.
HTTP-4000.2.3
haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0
Can I just unregister the old Haskell platform, I now use a newer one?
Ghc-pkg list : ...
{haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0}
haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0
haskell-src-1.0.1.4
haskell-src-1.0.1.4
haskell-src-1.0.1.5
haskell-src-1.0.1.5
(haskell2010-1.0.0.0)
(haskell2010-1.1.0.1)
(haskell2010-1.1.0.1)
haskell98-1.1.0.1
(haskell98-2.0.0.1)
(haskell98-2.0.0.1)
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install...
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: Hmm, Now when I tried to run Leksah, I get not only some broken packages (which I can avoid for my current project), but: ** ** command line: cannot satisfy -package-id base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917: base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies: integer-gmp-0.4.0.0-c15e185526893c3119f809251aac8c5b (use -v for more information) ** ** So I tried to install base, then re-install it, but both fail; You can't install base or integer-gmp from cabal-install. They are wired into the compiler, and the only way to reinstall them is to reinstall ghc. In fact, finding a way to install ether from cabal-install will cause the kind of breakage you're seeing. (It's not supposed to be possible, at least for base. If at some point you installed integer-gmp from hackage, you need to remove it; if you installed it into the global package database, you really do have no choice but remove and reinstall ghc now.) If you installed ghc as part of the haskell platform, then you need to remove and reinstall that. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install...
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: Hmm, Now when I tried to run Leksah, I get not only some broken packages (which I can avoid for my current project), but: ** ** command line: cannot satisfy -package-id base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917: base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies: integer-gmp-0.4.0.0-c15e185526893c3119f809251aac8c5b (use -v for more information) ** ** So I tried to install base, then re-install it, but both fail; Any hints? From this email and some of the previous emails it seems that your package DB is in a pretty bad state, most likely from using --force-reinstalls. When Cabal warns you that this will break stuff it actually means it. :) My suggestion is that you rm -rf ~/.ghc/x86_64-linux-7.6.1 # or equivalent on your system. Then reinstall all the packages you want by listing them all at once cabal install pkg1 pkg2 pk3 By listing them all together cabal-install tries to come up with an install plan that is globally consistent for all of them. -- Johan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install...
I have a dream of one day being able to install leksah without having to downgrade ghc. Right now I can't even install cabal-dev with cabal. It will break ghc if I do. 2012/11/20 Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: Hmm, Now when I tried to run Leksah, I get not only some broken packages (which I can avoid for my current project), but: command line: cannot satisfy -package-id base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917: base-4.5.1.0-7c83b96f47f23db63c42a56351dcb917 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies: integer-gmp-0.4.0.0-c15e185526893c3119f809251aac8c5b (use -v for more information) So I tried to install base, then re-install it, but both fail; Any hints? From this email and some of the previous emails it seems that your package DB is in a pretty bad state, most likely from using --force-reinstalls. When Cabal warns you that this will break stuff it actually means it. :) My suggestion is that you rm -rf ~/.ghc/x86_64-linux-7.6.1 # or equivalent on your system. Then reinstall all the packages you want by listing them all at once cabal install pkg1 pkg2 pk3 By listing them all together cabal-install tries to come up with an install plan that is globally consistent for all of them. -- Johan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install-1.16.0.2
Hi all, I've created bug fix release candidates for Cabal and cabal-install to address the bugs found after the release. If everyone could take some time to try them out, especially those who had issues with the previous releases. To install the release candidates run: cabal install http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.16.0.2.tar.gz \ http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.16.0.1.tar.gz Unless there are any issues, we'll make a release in the next few days. Cheers, Johan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install-1.16.0.2
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've created bug fix release candidates for Cabal and cabal-install to address the bugs found after the release. Here's the list of fixed bugs: Fixed since cabal-install-1.16.0: * Fix installing from custom folder on Linux (#1058) * Change bootstrap.sh to require Cabal = 1.16 1.18 * Bump cabal-install version number to 1.16.0.1 * Bump network dependency in bootstrap.sh to 2.3.1.1 * Fix compilation error * Disable setting the jobs: $nprocs line in default ~/.cabal config * Fix building cabal-install with ghc-6.12 and older Fixed since Cabal-1.16.0.1: * Bump Cabal version number to 1.16.0.2 * Fixed warnings on the generated Paths module. The warnings are generated by the flag '-fwarn-missing-import-lists'. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install-1.16.0.2
Hi Johan, On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Fixed since Cabal-1.16.0.1: * Fixed warnings on the generated Paths module. The warnings are generated by the flag '-fwarn-missing-import-lists'. I tested this issue with Cabal-1.16.0.2 and the issue was fixed. Thanks, -- Andrés ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors. Not to flog a dead horse, but: Just yesterday we had a communication from someone on the Gentoo Linux packaging team that their checksum validation for the bloomfilter package was failing. This problem arose because of the hand-editing of the package, but confusion arose in the bug report due to misattribution of the source of the error. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1017 Hand-editing uploaded tarballs: just don't do it, kids! Not to flog a dead horse, but: All our builds broke again yesterday due to this bug. The package was iteratee-0.8.9.3, though given the vocal opposition of Bryan O'Sullivan, I won't advocate fixing it in place just now. I've built the test in the Cabal library to reject packages with conditionals in the test-suites section. I'm just not sure if we want to implement this on hackage, and for how long. I'm not quite sure how old this cabal version is that is causing the problems, but the haskell platform it comes with is 2011.2, which means the second quarter of 2011, so that is a little over a year old. It comes with Ubuntu 11.10, which is less than a year old. I was going to argue to support versions of cabal (and GHC) for at least a year. That means that if you're on Ubuntu, which has releases every 6 months, you have 6 months to upgrade. However, that year has already expired for cabal 0.10, or is about to expire if you count the Ubuntu release it came with. So what do others think? Does the haskell community want to support anything other than the bleeding edge? If so, for how long? Regards, Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: Not to flog a dead horse, but: ... Not to flog a dead horse, but: All our builds broke again yesterday due to this bug. The package was iteratee-0.8.9.3, though given the vocal opposition of Bryan O'Sullivan, I won't advocate fixing it in place just now. ... I was going to argue to support versions of cabal (and GHC) for at least a year. That means that if you're on Ubuntu, which has releases every 6 months, you have 6 months to upgrade. However, that year has already expired for cabal 0.10, or is about to expire if you count the Ubuntu release it came with. So what do others think? Does the haskell community want to support anything other than the bleeding edge? If so, for how long? While we are all making glue, it really, really doesn't need to be like this! (Everybody is going to hate me for this and I am quite sure I am going to be ignored, but my conscience forbids me from staying quiet.) Every one of my Haskell Platform releases on justhub.org provides all the libraries and tools needed for that platform, which gets laid on top of the existing platforms (which can be removed when they are no longer needed). Each project can chooses its platform, and can pin whatever packages it needs to use without fear of being disrupted, while installing new GHC and platform releases for use with other projects. (Proper package erasure is supported too.) With trivial effort source trees can be moved around among different systems and rebuilt in the exact same configuration. The standard tools (ghc, ghci, ghc-pkg, cabal, etc.) can be used just as normal. All the developer needs to do is designate which platform (or bare ghc) to be used at the root of each work tree -- or leave it to use the platform-du-jour. I can only describe working with this kind of environment as peaceful (certainly not cabal hell). Trying to mutate and maintain coherent an ever-growing network of packages is not a scalable way of doing business. If on top of this the history gets patched up aren't things going to get even more confusing? I know that this way of doing things won't provide immediate relief (it's too radical relative to where everybody is) but I am trying to address Erik's question about what we should be aiming for. Shouldn't we be trying to find a sustainable, long-term, preferred method of delivering stable Haskell development environments? Why not a functional model? What is not to like? I will be at the CUFP if anybody would like to see a live demo or debate any of these points. Chris ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.comwrote: The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors. Not to flog a dead horse, but: Just yesterday we had a communication from someone on the Gentoo Linux packaging team that their checksum validation for the bloomfilter package was failing. This problem arose because of the hand-editing of the package, but confusion arose in the bug report due to misattribution of the source of the error. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1017 Hand-editing uploaded tarballs: just don't do it, kids! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Ross Paterson r...@soi.city.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Niklas Broberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ross Paterson r...@soi.city.ac.uk wrote: As I understand it, the plan is to modify the following packages in hackage in-situ to remove the test sections (which contain the troublesome conditionals): HUnit-1.2.5.0 bloomfilter-1.2.6.10 codemonitor-0.1 codemonitor-0.2 fixhs-0.1.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.3 leksah-server-0.12.0.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.5 pqc-0.5 pqc-0.5.1 Does anyone object? No objections, but some impatience. ;-) OK, done. I'm seeing this again, on abstract-deque-0.1.6. Ross, can you fix it again? For the future: is there any way to prevent this from happening? Perhaps a check in hackage? I'd be willing to implement this if people think this is a good idea, and I'm pointed in the right direction. Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing this again, on abstract-deque-0.1.6. Ross, can you fix it again? Hang on a second. The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors. I understand that the collective intentions around this were good, but by fixing things without telling anyone, package maintainers have no way to know that anything has happened. Now we are seeing the problem begin to recur as people issue new releases that don't incorporate those changes. So. Let's have a little conversation about how to handle this sustainably before wasting more of Ross's time. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing this again, on abstract-deque-0.1.6. Ross, can you fix it again? Hang on a second. The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors. I understand that the collective intentions around this were good, but by fixing things without telling anyone, package maintainers have no way to know that anything has happened. Now we are seeing the problem begin to recur as people issue new releases that don't incorporate those changes. So. Let's have a little conversation about how to handle this sustainably before wasting more of Ross's time. Yes, you are right. So the question is how long to support systems with the old cabal 0.10. This is the one included with the previous haskell platform (and thus lots of linux distro's), which is less than a year old. But it's also pretty old, since there weren't any cabal releases for a while. The other question is how useful test suites in a released package are. Aren't they much more useful (and used more often) in source repositories? If we do agree that we want to prevent this problem for a while (which I'm not sure about), we should probably do it by preventing uploads for packages like this. That way, package maintainers will know what is going on, just like with the other 'package quality' issues hackage enforces. Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52:59AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing this again, on abstract-deque-0.1.6. Ross, can you fix it again? Hang on a second. The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors. I understand that the collective intentions around this were good, but by fixing things without telling anyone, package maintainers have no way to know that anything has happened. Now we are seeing the problem begin to recur as people issue new releases that don't incorporate those changes. For the record, abstract-deque was neither one of the packages fixed previously, nor does its .cabal file even contain a test section at all, much less one with a conditional. So if cabal-install-0.10 is failing to read it, it is because of some different problem. But I agree with Bryan in principle that we need a more principled approach. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:39:39PM +0100, Erik Hesselink wrote: If we do agree that we want to prevent this problem for a while (which I'm not sure about), we should probably do it by preventing uploads for packages like this. That way, package maintainers will know what is going on, just like with the other 'package quality' issues hackage enforces. The place to check is Distribution.PackageDescription.Check.checkPackage (in Cabal). If this returns anything other than PackageDistSuspicious, hackage will reject the upload. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 09:03:18PM +0100, Brent Yorgey wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52:59AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing this again, on abstract-deque-0.1.6. Ross, can you fix it again? Hang on a second. The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors. I understand that the collective intentions around this were good, but by fixing things without telling anyone, package maintainers have no way to know that anything has happened. Now we are seeing the problem begin to recur as people issue new releases that don't incorporate those changes. For the record, abstract-deque was neither one of the packages fixed previously, nor does its .cabal file even contain a test section at all, much less one with a conditional. It did a couple of hours ago. But I agree with Bryan in principle that we need a more principled approach. Yes, and Cabal is the place to test for this. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, you are right. So the question is how long to support systems with the old cabal 0.10. This is the one included with the previous haskell platform (and thus lots of linux distro's), which is less than a year old. But it's also pretty old, since there weren't any cabal releases for a while. That's a very awkward situation. At least in the future, Johan and I have a proposal to make this class of problem more avoidable by introducing a regular release schedule. See the thread that starts here for details: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2012-August/008987.html For the state of things today, it's not obvious to me what to do. It's burdensome to ask package authors to remove stuff from their packages because it can't be handled by a broken version of cabal, especially since there's no upper bound on how long that broken version will be floating around. We'd essentially be giving up on this feature semi-permanently, which would make me sad because it's so useful. Just as unappealing is the idea of breaking builds for people who, through no fault of their own, are using the broken cabal. However, at least this class of people has the incentives aligned to do something about their problem: either upgrade cabal-install or their distro. The other question is how useful test suites in a released package are. Aren't they much more useful (and used more often) in source repositories? They're certainly useful in source repositories, and we have historically chosen not to make a distinction between what's in a source repo and what gets shipped to end users via cabal, which makes sense to me. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, you are right. So the question is how long to support systems with the old cabal 0.10. This is the one included with the previous haskell platform (and thus lots of linux distro's), which is less than a year old. But it's also pretty old, since there weren't any cabal releases for a while. That's a very awkward situation. At least in the future, Johan and I have a proposal to make this class of problem more avoidable by introducing a regular release schedule. See the thread that starts here for details: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2012-August/008987.html While it's a bit late now, a regular extension syntax of some kind might help. Something that unavoidably breaks an actual install should throw an error, other stuff should issue a warning (or even be ignored if not part of the main sequence; these packages that are causing breakage currently are doing so via index entries, I think, not by the packages themselves being built?). One trick you see in some environments, for example, is that X-$thing is ignored by older versions that don't know about $thing, and treated as $thing by those that do. If something needs $thing to build, then it will throw the error about $thing, but it won't break just by having X-$thing present. Eventually you can remove the X- prefix. (The difference between this and just ignoring unknowns is you don't completely lose protection from typoes and such. The X- could be understood as downgrading an error to a warning in some circumstances.) Another possibility, possibly used along with the above, is some kind of syntax update that is shipped along with cabal update. It would not enable cabal to *use* a new feature but could prime it to be *parsed* and not throw unnecessary errors. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
Well, this one looks like it was my fault because I never read this thread and this morning I uploaded that package (abstract-deque) with the conditional in the test-suite. The reason this conditional isn't there now is that the package was hacked in place to remove tests, which is fine. Actually, as a maintainer I'm not really clear on how to test this behavior. I tried cabal configure with cabal-install-0.10.2 as in the original post and I couldn't reproduce the problem. For the record, abstract-deque was neither one of the packages fixed previously, nor does its .cabal file even contain a test section at all, much less one with a conditional. So if cabal-install-0.10 is failing to read it, it is because of some different problem. But I agree with Bryan in principle that we need a more principled approach. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Aug 27, 2012 8:40 PM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: The other question is how useful test suites in a released package are. Aren't they much more useful (and used more often) in source repositories? Having tests available in a released package allows one to verify that the software is functional in its current configuration / state on your system; this seems extremely useful to me. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On 8/27/12 6:27 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: On Aug 27, 2012 8:40 PM, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: The other question is how useful test suites in a released package are. Aren't they much more useful (and used more often) in source repositories? Having tests available in a released package allows one to verify that the software is functional in its current configuration / state on your system; this seems extremely useful to me. indeed. -- Live well, ~wren ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ross Paterson r...@soi.city.ac.uk wrote: As I understand it, the plan is to modify the following packages in hackage in-situ to remove the test sections (which contain the troublesome conditionals): HUnit-1.2.5.0 bloomfilter-1.2.6.10 codemonitor-0.1 codemonitor-0.2 fixhs-0.1.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.3 leksah-server-0.12.0.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.5 pqc-0.5 pqc-0.5.1 Does anyone object? No objections, but some impatience. ;-) Cheers, /Niklas ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Niklas Broberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ross Paterson r...@soi.city.ac.uk wrote: As I understand it, the plan is to modify the following packages in hackage in-situ to remove the test sections (which contain the troublesome conditionals): HUnit-1.2.5.0 bloomfilter-1.2.6.10 codemonitor-0.1 codemonitor-0.2 fixhs-0.1.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.3 leksah-server-0.12.0.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.5 pqc-0.5 pqc-0.5.1 Does anyone object? No objections, but some impatience. ;-) OK, done. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:02:18AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:34:16AM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: Hi Ross, can you fix this on Hackage? My suggested solution is to again just remove the test-suite sections from the cabal file, if that is fine with Richard. I'll modify the packages in-place if there's a consensus on what to do. I think Richard gave his consent. Is there still anything we need to sort out? BTW: Here is a reddit story on the issue: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/x16h7/hackage_b0rked_for_cabal_0102/ Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:43:48AM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:02:18AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:34:16AM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: Hi Ross, can you fix this on Hackage? My suggested solution is to again just remove the test-suite sections from the cabal file, if that is fine with Richard. I'll modify the packages in-place if there's a consensus on what to do. I think Richard gave his consent. Is there still anything we need to sort out? BTW: Here is a reddit story on the issue: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/x16h7/hackage_b0rked_for_cabal_0102/ As I understand it, the plan is to modify the following packages in hackage in-situ to remove the test sections (which contain the troublesome conditionals): HUnit-1.2.5.0 bloomfilter-1.2.6.10 codemonitor-0.1 codemonitor-0.2 fixhs-0.1.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.3 leksah-server-0.12.0.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.5 pqc-0.5 pqc-0.5.1 Does anyone object? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: Currently you would have to do the upgrade manually, as `cabal-install cabal-install` won't work (or alternatively edit your local ~/.cabl/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar). Pending a fix on hackage (hopefully) I've been using `cabal copy cabal register` to grab specific packages today. How would I go about fixing my 00-index.tar? I tride de-tarring, deleting the recent versions of HUnit, and re-tarring, and when I copy that file in cabal starts telling me no packages exist...? E.g. with vim, you can edit files in the tar file (in-place). That is what I did, and it worked fine. Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Monday, July 23, 2012, Simon Hengel wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: Currently you would have to do the upgrade manually, as `cabal-install cabal-install` won't work (or alternatively edit your local ~/.cabl/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar). Pending a fix on hackage (hopefully) I've been using `cabal copy cabal register` to grab specific packages today. How would I go about fixing my 00-index.tar? I tride de-tarring, deleting the recent versions of HUnit, and re-tarring, and when I copy that file in cabal starts telling me no packages exist...? E.g. with vim, you can edit files in the tar file (in-place). That is what I did, and it worked fine. I use tar f 00-index.tar --delete Hunit/1.2.5.0/Hunit.cabal Works with GNU tar, not with BSD/mac. Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
Hi Ross, can you fix this on Hackage? My suggested solution is to again just remove the test-suite sections from the cabal file, if that is fine with Richard. The current situation is unfortunate, as it breaks almost all installs from Hackage with cabal-install 0.10.2 / Cabal 1.10.1.0, e.g. you can not even upgrade cabal-install anymore: $ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.10.2 using version 1.10.1.0 of the Cabal library $ cabal install cabal-install Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
Upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 (or cabal-install-0.14.0 with Cabal-1.14.0) should fix the problem. Currently you would have to do the upgrade manually, as `cabal-install cabal-install` won't work (or alternatively edit your local ~/.cabl/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar). See my other mail to this thread. Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:34:16AM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: Hi Ross, can you fix this on Hackage? My suggested solution is to again just remove the test-suite sections from the cabal file, if that is fine with Richard. I'll modify the packages in-place if there's a consensus on what to do. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:51:51PM -0600, Richard G. wrote: What's the best way to fix this? I can see two options: - Move the test stanzas to a different Cabal file, allowing users to perform the tests with a little fiddling. - Remove the conditional statements from the test stanzas, which may break compatibility with some compilers and interpreters. Is there another option? I think it is preferable to have a test section in the main cabal file. Just an idea: What about having just a single test suite that *depends on the library*? I think that way the test suit would not require any conditionals, but you could not test with different optimization levels anymore. We could then add a Makefile/script that configures, builds and tests with the different optimization levels. This approach also has the advantage, that we are testing exactly the same thing (the library!) that the user is going to use. Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
Hi all, All cabal installs using cabal-install-0.10.2 are currently failing for us. This is due to the cabal file for HUnit-1.2.5.0, which was recently uploaded to hackage. The ouput I'm getting from cabal is just: Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal If I unpack HUnit-1.2.5.0 and call 'cabal configure', I get: cabal: HUnit.cabal:57: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The available test types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0 The relevant lines from the cabal file are: Test-Suite hunit-tests-optimize-0 Type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 These look fine to me. Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this (on hackage at least)? Could this package temporarily be removed, to avoid breaking everyone's cabal? Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
Hi Erik, A similar thing happened to me with the GraphViz package. As Duncan explained to me, the problem is that Cabal-1.10.0.0 (and I believe also 1.10.1.0) incorrectly reports an error when conditionals are used in test suites. Upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 (or cabal-install-0.14.0 with Cabal-1.14.0) should fix the problem. Unfortunately, this means your build will not work on a fresh Haskell Platform v2012.2.0.0, until HUnit is patched in the hackage index. Cheers, Martijn Schrage -- Oblomov Systems (http://www.oblomov.com) On 18-07-12 16:26, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi all, All cabal installs using cabal-install-0.10.2 are currently failing for us. This is due to the cabal file for HUnit-1.2.5.0, which was recently uploaded to hackage. The ouput I'm getting from cabal is just: Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal If I unpack HUnit-1.2.5.0 and call 'cabal configure', I get: cabal: HUnit.cabal:57: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The available test types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0 The relevant lines from the cabal file are: Test-Suite hunit-tests-optimize-0 Type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 These look fine to me. Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this (on hackage at least)? Could this package temporarily be removed, to avoid breaking everyone's cabal? Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
Hi Martijn, Yes, upgrading will obviously fix things (we do use 0.14 on our development machines), but we have not set up any infrastructure for building a custom cabal on production servers. We just use the one from the Ubuntu repositories, which uses Cabal 1.10.1.0 on oneiric. So until we upgrade to precise I guess we have a problem. Erik On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Martijn Schrage mart...@oblomov.com wrote: Hi Erik, A similar thing happened to me with the GraphViz package. As Duncan explained to me, the problem is that Cabal-1.10.0.0 (and I believe also 1.10.1.0) incorrectly reports an error when conditionals are used in test suites. Upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 (or cabal-install-0.14.0 with Cabal-1.14.0) should fix the problem. Unfortunately, this means your build will not work on a fresh Haskell Platform v2012.2.0.0, until HUnit is patched in the hackage index. Cheers, Martijn Schrage -- Oblomov Systems (http://www.oblomov.com) On 18-07-12 16:26, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi all, All cabal installs using cabal-install-0.10.2 are currently failing for us. This is due to the cabal file for HUnit-1.2.5.0, which was recently uploaded to hackage. The ouput I'm getting from cabal is just: Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal If I unpack HUnit-1.2.5.0 and call 'cabal configure', I get: cabal: HUnit.cabal:57: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The available test types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0 The relevant lines from the cabal file are: Test-Suite hunit-tests-optimize-0 Type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 These look fine to me. Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this (on hackage at least)? Could this package temporarily be removed, to avoid breaking everyone's cabal? Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On 18-07-12 17:37, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi Martijn, Yes, upgrading will obviously fix things (we do use 0.14 on our development machines) Well, to me it wasn't entirely obvious that upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 fixes the problem for cabal-install-0.12, and I still think this is a good solution for most people that use version 2012.2.0.0 of the platform. I'd suggest you ask Duncan to patch the hackage repository, and maybe contact the maintainer of HUnit to prevent future problems. -- Martijn , but we have not set up any infrastructure for building a custom cabal on production servers. We just use the one from the Ubuntu repositories, which uses Cabal 1.10.1.0 on oneiric. So until we upgrade to precise I guess we have a problem. Erik On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Martijn Schrage mart...@oblomov.com wrote: Hi Erik, A similar thing happened to me with the GraphViz package. As Duncan explained to me, the problem is that Cabal-1.10.0.0 (and I believe also 1.10.1.0) incorrectly reports an error when conditionals are used in test suites. Upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 (or cabal-install-0.14.0 with Cabal-1.14.0) should fix the problem. Unfortunately, this means your build will not work on a fresh Haskell Platform v2012.2.0.0, until HUnit is patched in the hackage index. Cheers, Martijn Schrage -- Oblomov Systems (http://www.oblomov.com) On 18-07-12 16:26, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi all, All cabal installs using cabal-install-0.10.2 are currently failing for us. This is due to the cabal file for HUnit-1.2.5.0, which was recently uploaded to hackage. The ouput I'm getting from cabal is just: Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal If I unpack HUnit-1.2.5.0 and call 'cabal configure', I get: cabal: HUnit.cabal:57: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The available test types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0 The relevant lines from the cabal file are: Test-Suite hunit-tests-optimize-0 Type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 These look fine to me. Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this (on hackage at least)? Could this package temporarily be removed, to avoid breaking everyone's cabal? Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
CCing: Ross Paterson and Richard G. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:54:44PM +0200, Martijn Schrage wrote: On 18-07-12 17:37, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi Martijn, Yes, upgrading will obviously fix things (we do use 0.14 on our development machines) Well, to me it wasn't entirely obvious that upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 fixes the problem for cabal-install-0.12, and I still think this is a good solution for most people that use version 2012.2.0.0 of the platform. I'd suggest you ask Duncan to patch the hackage repository, and maybe contact the maintainer of HUnit to prevent future problems. This also breaks all travis-ci builds. I think it is critical to refrain from using conditionals in test-suite stanzas for some time + fix the broken release on Hackage. Is there a way to make this issue more well-know. Would a warning on the upload page help? @Richard FYI: Just uploading a new package won't solve this issue. Cheers, Simon -- Martijn , but we have not set up any infrastructure for building a custom cabal on production servers. We just use the one from the Ubuntu repositories, which uses Cabal 1.10.1.0 on oneiric. So until we upgrade to precise I guess we have a problem. Erik On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Martijn Schrage mart...@oblomov.com wrote: Hi Erik, A similar thing happened to me with the GraphViz package. As Duncan explained to me, the problem is that Cabal-1.10.0.0 (and I believe also 1.10.1.0) incorrectly reports an error when conditionals are used in test suites. Upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 (or cabal-install-0.14.0 with Cabal-1.14.0) should fix the problem. Unfortunately, this means your build will not work on a fresh Haskell Platform v2012.2.0.0, until HUnit is patched in the hackage index. Cheers, Martijn Schrage -- Oblomov Systems (http://www.oblomov.com) On 18-07-12 16:26, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi all, All cabal installs using cabal-install-0.10.2 are currently failing for us. This is due to the cabal file for HUnit-1.2.5.0, which was recently uploaded to hackage. The ouput I'm getting from cabal is just: Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal If I unpack HUnit-1.2.5.0 and call 'cabal configure', I get: cabal: HUnit.cabal:57: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The available test types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0 The relevant lines from the cabal file are: Test-Suite hunit-tests-optimize-0 Type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 These look fine to me. Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this (on hackage at least)? Could this package temporarily be removed, to avoid breaking everyone's cabal? Erik ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:16:19PM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: CCing: Ross Paterson and Richard G. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:54:44PM +0200, Martijn Schrage wrote: On 18-07-12 17:37, Erik Hesselink wrote: Hi Martijn, Yes, upgrading will obviously fix things (we do use 0.14 on our development machines) Well, to me it wasn't entirely obvious that upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 fixes the problem for cabal-install-0.12, and I still think this is a good solution for most people that use version 2012.2.0.0 of the platform. I'd suggest you ask Duncan to patch the hackage repository, and maybe contact the maintainer of HUnit to prevent future problems. This also breaks all travis-ci builds. I think it is critical to refrain from using conditionals in test-suite stanzas for some time + fix the broken release on Hackage. Is there a way to make this issue more well-know. Would a warning on the upload page help? Other packages in hackage with conditionals in test-suites: fixhs-0.1.4 bloomfilter-1.2.6.10 pqc-0.5 pqc-0.5.1 leksah-server-0.12.0.3 leksah-server-0.12.0.4 leksah-server-0.12.0.5 codemonitor-0.1 codemonitor-0.2 ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
On Mar 16, 2012 3:12 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 March 2012 09:02, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: One trivial solution is to assume ~/.cabal/bin is on the PATH and to ignore system-wide packages, which I think is even *more* sub-optimal (why install a new version of alex when it's already available?). The tool should only install alex in ~/.cabal/bin if alex is not already available. So how does it know whether the *correct version* is available? Add --version parsers for every single possible build-tool to cabal-install? That is (probably) how it knows that the necessary version of alex is not available. There actually is a standard format for checking version numbers of the core haskell build tools: --numeric-version produces output that is easily parsed (and matches the default parser for cabal Program values). I'm not at a computer to check alex specifically right now, but I'm fairly certain it is one of the builtin Programs that cabal can check. (you can also write your own, and put them in setup.hs if you need a special build tool.) There is, of course, nothing that says ask the build tools are going to be available on hackage (or even in haskell). I'm not sure how to fix this, really. We could make the build tools section produce more detailed instructions for installing missing tools in the case that cabal can't install them. -Rogan -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
Hi all, With a base system with just ghc and cabal-install, if I try to install bytestring-lexing I get: $ cabal install bytestring-lexing Resolving dependencies... Configuring bytestring-lexing-0.4.0... cabal: The program alex version =2.3 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: bytestring-lexing-0.4.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 The cabal file for bytestring-lexing contains Build-Tools: alex = 2.3 Is there any way to make the cabal install of bytestring-lexing force the install of alex first? Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
Hi, Am Freitag, den 16.03.2012, 21:00 +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: With a base system with just ghc and cabal-install, if I try to install bytestring-lexing I get: $ cabal install bytestring-lexing Resolving dependencies... Configuring bytestring-lexing-0.4.0... cabal: The program alex version =2.3 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: bytestring-lexing-0.4.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 The cabal file for bytestring-lexing contains Build-Tools: alex = 2.3 Is there any way to make the cabal install of bytestring-lexing force the install of alex first? no, cabal-install does not automatically install build-tools at all, only Cabal checks them for compilation. I guess the reason is that build-tools needs to be put on the PATH, and that is beyond the scope of cabal-install. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
Joachim Breitner wrote: no, cabal-install does not automatically install build-tools at all, only Cabal checks them for compilation. I guess the reason is that build-tools needs to be put on the PATH, and that is beyond the scope of cabal-install. This is rather sub-optimal. One place where people are running into this problem is when installing Yesod. Yesod depends on warp which depends on bytestring-lexing which requires alex at build time. The problem is that many of the people trying out Yesod are newcomers to Haskell. They are going to try cabal install yesod and have it fail because alex is missing. This is not a good introduction Haskell/Yesod. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
On 16 March 2012 21:56, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Joachim Breitner wrote: no, cabal-install does not automatically install build-tools at all, only Cabal checks them for compilation. I guess the reason is that build-tools needs to be put on the PATH, and that is beyond the scope of cabal-install. This is rather sub-optimal. It is, but the only way it would work is for cabal-install be much closer to a _real_ package management system: * Needs to keep track of installed packages. This is achieved in recent versions with a ~/.cabal/world file. * Keep track of which versions are installed. The world file states which versions it was *told* to install, not which are currently installed. For libraries, it doesn't matter: it gets that information from ghc-pkg. For binaries, this doesn't work (since there's no required standard for version reporting in Haskell build-tools). * Ensure that binaries are installed to somewhere in the PATH (not possible AFAIK). One trivial solution is to assume ~/.cabal/bin is on the PATH and to ignore system-wide packages, which I think is even *more* sub-optimal (why install a new version of alex when it's already available?). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
Alex is supplied as part of the Platform though which is the recommended system for beginners, is Yesod currently in advance of the Platform? On 16 March 2012 10:56, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: The problem is that many of the people trying out Yesod are newcomers to Haskell. They are going to try cabal install yesod and have it fail because alex is missing. This is not a good introduction Haskell/Yesod. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
The Yesod docs all state very explicitly that we depend on the Haskell Platform, and in particular that alex needs to be installed. However, that doesn't stop this issue from confusing people. I think a good short term solution could be what Alan Zimmerman did with language-javascript: include the files generated by alex in the tarball, so that there is no alex dependency for installing from Hackage. You would only need alex for developing. Ideally I think cabal-install should be able to handle installation of build tools- possibly to its own private folder where it's properly versioned. Michael On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: Alex is supplied as part of the Platform though which is the recommended system for beginners, is Yesod currently in advance of the Platform? On 16 March 2012 10:56, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: The problem is that many of the people trying out Yesod are newcomers to Haskell. They are going to try cabal install yesod and have it fail because alex is missing. This is not a good introduction Haskell/Yesod. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
On 3/16/12 6:00 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, With a base system with just ghc and cabal-install, if I try to install bytestring-lexing I get: $ cabal install bytestring-lexing Resolving dependencies... Configuring bytestring-lexing-0.4.0... cabal: The program alex version=2.3 is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: bytestring-lexing-0.4.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 The cabal file for bytestring-lexing contains Build-Tools: alex= 2.3 Is there any way to make the cabal install of bytestring-lexing force the install of alex first? FWIW, the Alex dependency is part of the code I inherited when taking over bytestring-lexing. Apparently older versions of the library included pre-generated versions of the files that Alex builds, prior to when Cabal understood about build tools at all. I'm willing to go back that direction if that's what folks want--- especially if there's a way to tell Cabal to switch between the pregenerated files vs using Alex. I've noticed that the code generated by Alex causes a lot of warnings, some of them are of the it will break in the future variety. I've considered rewriting the parsers for Double manually, but I'm not sure exactly what the performance bottlenecks are in that context nor whether anyone is actually using the current functions in performance-critical regions. To Erik specifically: my emails to you off-list have been bouncing/timing out. Is there a chance I've ended up on a blacklist or there's some configuration issue at mega-nerd.com? -- Live well, ~wren ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: One trivial solution is to assume ~/.cabal/bin is on the PATH and to ignore system-wide packages, which I think is even *more* sub-optimal (why install a new version of alex when it's already available?). The tool should only install alex in ~/.cabal/bin if alex is not already available. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing
On 17 March 2012 09:02, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: One trivial solution is to assume ~/.cabal/bin is on the PATH and to ignore system-wide packages, which I think is even *more* sub-optimal (why install a new version of alex when it's already available?). The tool should only install alex in ~/.cabal/bin if alex is not already available. So how does it know whether the *correct version* is available? Add --version parsers for every single possible build-tool to cabal-install? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install package precedence with --extra-lib-dirs
On 12-02-02 12:12 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote: When running cabal install with --extra-lib-dirs=./lib, if a package is found both in ~/.cabal/lib and ./lib, cabal seems to favor the ~/.cabal/lib one. Is there some way to specify the correct precedence to use? --extra-lib-dirs is for C libs only. Haskell packages for GHC are not rediscovered every time by scanning lib directories. They are registered in 2 metadata stores (3 if you add an option), and only the metadata stores are consulted. On existence of packages, this is final. The 2 metadata stores also come with a precedence: the user store has higher priority than the global store. On disambiguation of packages, this is final. http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml#ident ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install package precedence with --extra-lib-dirs
When running cabal install with --extra-lib-dirs=./lib, if a package is found both in ~/.cabal/lib and ./lib, cabal seems to favor the ~/.cabal/lib one. Is there some way to specify the correct precedence to use? -- Scott Lawrence signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install bootstrap.sh
I've just spent most of a morning trying to get bootstrap.sh from the cabal-install package to work. The trick is to use ghc-pkg init pathname to initialise the package file - simply adding an empty package file or directory doesn't work. Whoever is responsible for cabal-install, could you please update the README to reflect this requirement. Thanks - Will ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install --hyperlink-source ?
Hello. I can do cabal install --enable-documentation which is nice because it does configure, build, haddock and copy in one go, but I don't see how to pass options from cabal install to cabal haddock (e.g., --hyperlink-source) Any hints appreciated, J.W. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install --hyperlink-source ?
On 2 December 2011 16:13, Johannes Waldmann waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.dewrote: but I don't see how to pass options from cabal install to cabal haddock (e.g., --hyperlink-source) As it seems, it is not possible. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2472630/enable-hyperlink-source-for-cabal-install -- Ozgur ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] cabal install: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow'
Hi, On Mac OSX, ghc-6.12.3, I have successfully installed the 'hxt' package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hxt-8.5.2 Registering hxt-9.1.4... Installing library in /Users/user/.cabal/lib/hxt-9.1.4/ghc-6.12.3 Now when I try to install hSimpleDB ( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hSimpleDB) I get the following error: cabal install hSimpleDB ... Registering HTTP-4000.0.9... Installing library in /Users/user/.cabal/lib/HTTP-4000.0.9/ghc-6.12.3 Registering HTTP-4000.0.9... Configuring hSimpleDB-0.3... Preprocessing library hSimpleDB-0.3... Building hSimpleDB-0.3... src/Network/AWS/Authentication.hs:47:7: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: hSimpleDB-0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks! Dmitri ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow'
On 8 November 2011 21:58, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mac OSX, ghc-6.12.3, I have successfully installed the 'hxt' package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hxt-8.5.2 Registering hxt-9.1.4... Installing library in /Users/user/.cabal/lib/hxt-9.1.4/ghc-6.12.3 Now when I try to install hSimpleDB (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hSimpleDB) I get the following error: cabal install hSimpleDB ... Registering HTTP-4000.0.9... Installing library in /Users/user/.cabal/lib/HTTP-4000.0.9/ghc-6.12.3 Registering HTTP-4000.0.9... Configuring hSimpleDB-0.3... Preprocessing library hSimpleDB-0.3... Building hSimpleDB-0.3... src/Network/AWS/Authentication.hs:47:7: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: hSimpleDB-0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 Any ideas how to solve this? Looks like it's missing a dep on hxt. cabal unpack hSimpleDB then go into the directory, edit the .cabal file to add the dep, and cabal install in that directory. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow'
This is because hSimpleDB doesn't specify version ranges on its dependencies, when it should. Since hxt changed its module structure going from 9.0 to 9.1, hSimpleDB doesn't build against 9.0. You can try to build it by adding '--constraint=hxt==9.0.\*' after your cabal-install command. You can also ask the author to add version ranges to the package. Erik On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:58, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mac OSX, ghc-6.12.3, I have successfully installed the 'hxt' package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hxt-8.5.2 Registering hxt-9.1.4... Installing library in /Users/user/.cabal/lib/hxt-9.1.4/ghc-6.12.3 Now when I try to install hSimpleDB (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hSimpleDB) I get the following error: cabal install hSimpleDB ... Registering HTTP-4000.0.9... Installing library in /Users/user/.cabal/lib/HTTP-4000.0.9/ghc-6.12.3 Registering HTTP-4000.0.9... Configuring hSimpleDB-0.3... Preprocessing library hSimpleDB-0.3... Building hSimpleDB-0.3... src/Network/AWS/Authentication.hs:47:7: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: hSimpleDB-0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks! Dmitri ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow'
On 8 November 2011 22:10, Erik Hesselink hessel...@gmail.com wrote: This is because hSimpleDB doesn't specify version ranges on its dependencies, when it should. Since hxt changed its module structure going from 9.0 to 9.1, hSimpleDB doesn't build against 9.0. You can try to build it by adding '--constraint=hxt==9.0.\*' after your cabal-install command. You can also ask the author to add version ranges to the package. Is the escape needed if you're using single quotes? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
