Hello Karel, When this commit makes it in https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/8d59dc9fba584a9fdb810f4d84f7f3ccb089dd08 it will work; but updating Cabal to HEAD is blocking on https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9583
Cheers, Edward Excerpts from Karel Gardas's message of 2014-09-08 03:21:40 -0400: > Hello, > > I've noticed that probably after cabal/ghc-pkg changes done recently > HEAD fails to build with HEAD in following way: > > [80 of 80] Compiling Main ( utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs, > bootstrapping/Main.o ) > Linking utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal ... > "touch" utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal > "cp" utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal inplace/bin/ghc-cabal > "inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage1/build//. > "rm" -f compiler/stage1/build/Config.hs > Creating compiler/stage1/build/Config.hs ... > done. > "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure libraries/Cabal/Cabal dist-boot "" > --with-ghc="/opt/ghc-7.9.20140906-amd64/bin/ghc" > --with-ghc-pkg="/opt/ghc-7.9.20140906-amd64/bin/ghc-pkg" > --package-db=/export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-src/head/libraries/bootstrapping.conf > --disable-library-for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla > --disable-library-profiling --disable-shared > --with-hscolour="/export/home/karel/.cabal/bin/HsColour" > --configure-option=CFLAGS=" -m64 -fno-stack-protector " > --configure-option=LDFLAGS=" -m64 " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS=" -m64 > " --gcc-options=" -m64 -fno-stack-protector -m64 " > --configure-option=--with-gmp-includes="/usr/include/gmp" > --configure-option=--with-gmp-libraries="/usr/lib/" --constraint > "Cabal == 1.21.1.0" --constraint "hpc == 0.6.0.1" --constraint > "binary == 0.7.1.0" --constraint "bin-package-db == 0.0.0.0" > --constraint "hoopl == 3.10.0.1" --constraint "transformers == > 0.4.1.0" --constraint "terminfo == 0.4.0.0" --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc" > --configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc" --with-ar="/usr/xpg4/bin/ar" > --with-alex="/export/home/karel/.cabal/bin/alex" > --with-happy="/export/home/karel/.cabal/bin/happy" > Configuring Cabal-1.21.1.0... > ghc-cabal: '/opt/ghc-7.9.20140906-amd64/bin/ghc-pkg' exited with an error: > ghc-pkg: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases > (/export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-src/head/libraries/bootstrapping.conf) use > 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format. > gmake[1]: *** [libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1 > gmake: *** [all] Error 2 > > > I've been able to solve this by: > > $ rm libraries/bootstrapping.conf > $ /opt/ghc-7.9.20140906-amd64/bin/ghc-pkg init libraries/bootstrapping.conf > > however it's kind of impractical to do that on buildbot (solaris/amd64). > Is it possible to fix that somehow? > > Thanks! > Karel _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
