Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-03-14 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10/03/2011 02:44, Dave Bayer wrote: I saw this same error, building GHC 7.0.2 from source on OS X. My builds are completely scripted, so I could attempt any experiments that would help. I always expect issues with major (here, 6 = 7) version changes; here all issues surrounded cabal-install

Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-03-09 Thread William Knop
Hi Simon, thanks for the reply. Indeed it is reproducible with a maintainer-clean tree and to be sure I even set up a fresh repo. I'm still unclear what the underlying issue is, but I've worked around it by first running `make` until the error, then editing ./ghc/stage1/package-data.mk to remove

Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-03-09 Thread Dave Bayer
I saw this same error, building GHC 7.0.2 from source on OS X. My builds are completely scripted, so I could attempt any experiments that would help. I always expect issues with major (here, 6 = 7) version changes; here all issues surrounded cabal-install in one way or another. My issues went

Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-03-09 Thread Dave Bayer
On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Dave Bayer wrote: I still can't use cabal-install on one copy of 7.0.2 to install to another copy of 7.0.2, but it looks like something I'll manage to sort out without help. cabal install cabal-install tries to install 0.8.2, and fails. cabal install

Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Marlow
On 04/03/11 11:49, William Knop wrote: Hi all, Not to pester, but this problem has me stumped. All of the dependencies that ghc reports are broken/recursive are reported (with identical versions) by ghc-pkg/cabal as being part of my bootstrap install. Rerunning the offending command with

Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-03-04 Thread William Knop
Hi all, Not to pester, but this problem has me stumped. All of the dependencies that ghc reports are broken/recursive are reported (with identical versions) by ghc-pkg/cabal as being part of my bootstrap install. Rerunning the offending command with -package ghc instead of -package

Re: GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-02-27 Thread William Knop
I'm not sure what happened with the quote formatting in my original message; sorry about that. Anyhow, I'd really appreciate it if someone would chime in about this issue. Is it something silly that I'm not comprehending about the build system or cabal, or is it a legitimate bug/deficiency?

GHC build error: cannot satisfy -package ghc-7.1.20110217

2011-02-24 Thread William Knop
Hi all, I'm building GHC HEAD, and I've encountered the following error a couple times: /usr/bin/ghc -M -dep-makefile ghc/stage1/build/.depend.haskell.tmp -include-pkg-deps -H32m -O -package-conf libraries/bootstrapping.conf -hide-all-packages -i -ighc/. -ighc/stage1/build