Could it be this problem? https://plus.google.com/115504368969270249241/posts/19fyYuT5C1i
Regards, Erik On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Dear Cabal-ers > > I have downloaded a binary installation of GHC 7.8.2, for Linux. > > Now I want to install regex-compat. First I had to deal with the http_proxy > problem, in my last email. But now I get this: > > cabal install regex-compat > > Resolving dependencies... > > Downloading regex-posix-0.95.2... > > Configuring regex-posix-0.95.2... > > Building regex-posix-0.95.2... > > Preprocessing library regex-posix-0.95.2... > > [1 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix.Wrap ( > dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap.hs, dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap.o ) > > [2 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix.String ( Text/Regex/Posix/String.hs, > dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/String.o ) > > [3 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix.Sequence ( Text/Regex/Posix/Sequence.hs, > dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Sequence.o ) > > [4 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix.ByteString ( > Text/Regex/Posix/ByteString.hs, dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/ByteString.o ) > > [5 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix.ByteString.Lazy ( > Text/Regex/Posix/ByteString/Lazy.hs, > dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/ByteString/Lazy.o ) > > [6 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix ( Text/Regex/Posix.hs, > dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix.o ) > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSregex-base-0.93.2-ghc7.8.2 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSmtl-2.1.2-ghc7.8.2 > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Failed to install regex-posix-0.95.2 > > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > > regex-compat-0.95.1 depends on regex-posix-0.95.2 which failed to install. > > regex-posix-0.95.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was: > > ExitFailure 1 > > > > simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD-1$ cabal install regex-base > > Resolving dependencies... > > All the requested packages are already installed: > > regex-base-0.93.2 > > Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway. > > simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD-1$ > > > > So regex-base is already installed, but cabal isn’t using it for > regex-posix; nor is it installing regex-base-0.93.2. This seems to break > the user’s-eye view of the Cabal claim that it’ll download and install the > dependencies. > > Any thoughts? > > Simon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel > _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
