#768: Cabal cannot find GHC when using relative path in -w flag
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Reporter: tibbe | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Trying to build the network package while standing at the root of a GHC
build tree fails to find GHC:
{{{
$ cabal install -w inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 network -v2
inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --numeric-version
looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in inplace/bin
found package tool in inplace/bin/ghc-pkg
inplace/bin/ghc-pkg --version
inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --supported-languages
Reading installed packages...
inplace/bin/ghc-pkg dump --global
inplace/bin/ghc-pkg dump --user
inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --print-libdir
Reading available packages...
Resolving dependencies...
selecting network-2.3 (hackage) and discarding network-2.0, 2.1.0.0,
2.2.0.0,
2.2.0.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.1.1, 2.2.1.2, 2.2.1.3, 2.2.1.4, 2.2.1.5, 2.2.1.6,
2.2.1.7,
2.2.1.8, 2.2.1.9, 2.2.1.10, 2.2.3 and 2.2.3.1
selecting base-4.3.0.0 (installed)
selecting ffi-1.0 (installed)
selecting ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 (installed)
selecting integer-gmp-0.2.0.2 (installed)
selecting rts-1.0 (installed)
selecting parsec-2.1.0.1 (hackage) and discarding parsec-2.0, 2.1.0.0,
3.0.0,
3.0.1 and 3.1.0
selecting unix-2.4.1.0 (installed) and discarding unix-2.0, 2.2.0.0,
2.3.0.0,
2.3.1.0, 2.3.2.0, 2.4.0.0, 2.4.0.1 and 2.4.0.2
selecting bytestring-0.9.1.8 (installed) and discarding bytestring-0.9,
0.9.0.1, 0.9.0.2, 0.9.0.3, 0.9.0.4, 0.9.1.0, 0.9.1.1, 0.9.1.2, 0.9.1.3,
0.9.1.4, 0.9.1.5, 0.9.1.6 and 0.9.1.7
In order, the following would be installed:
parsec-2.1.0.1 (new package)
network-2.3 (new package)
parsec-2.1.0.1 has already been downloaded.
Extracting
/home/tibell/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/parsec/2.1.0.1/parsec-2.1.0.1.tar.gz
to /tmp/parsec-2.1.0.117969...
Configuring parsec-2.1.0.1...
cabal: Cannot find the program 'ghc' at 'inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' or on the
path
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
network-2.3 depends on parsec-2.1.0.1 which failed to install.
parsec-2.1.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/768>
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