<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>Does `git clean -fdx .` in libraries/Cabal help? git clean doesn't go into submodules.<br><br>-Krzysztof<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:09 PM My Nguyen <<a href="mailto:mnguyen1@brynmawr.edu" target="_blank">mnguyen1@brynmawr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I've finished quite a big rebase and was trying to rebuild, but it failed with:</p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ghc-cabal: Encountered missing dependencies:</span></div>
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I then tried applying my patch on a fresh checkout of GHC and found the reason:
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b>libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Compat/Prelude.hs:119:1:</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(195,55,32)"><b>error:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bad interface file: libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/build/Distribution/Compat/Binary.hi</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>Something is amiss; requested module<span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space">
</span>Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Compat.Binary differs from name found in the interface file Cabal-2.5.0.0:Distribution.Compat.Binary (if these names look the same, try again with -dppr-debug)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(82,48,225)"><b>119 |</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b>import Distribution.Compat.Binary<span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space">
</span>(Binary (..))</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(82,48,225)"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b>libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Compat/Prelude.hs:120:1:</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(195,55,32)"><b>error:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bad interface file: libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/build/Distribution/Compat/Semigroup.hi</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>Something is amiss; requested module<span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space">
</span>Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Compat.Semigroup differs from name found in the interface file Cabal-2.5.0.0:Distribution.Compat.Semigroup (if these names look the same, try again with -dppr-debug)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(82,48,225)"><b>120 |</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b>import Distribution.Compat.Semigroup
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(82,48,225)"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b>libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Compat/Prelude.hs:141:1:</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(195,55,32)"><b>error:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bad interface file: libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/build/Distribution/Compat/Stack.hi</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>Something is amiss; requested module<span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space">
</span>Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Compat.Stack differs from name found in the interface file Cabal-2.5.0.0:Distribution.Compat.Stack (if these names look the same, try again with -dppr-debug)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(82,48,225)"><b>141 |</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b>import Distribution.Compat.Stack</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(82,48,225)"><b><span class="m_4072115928933759355m_8863188587282715971Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><b> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I'm sure I did `git module update`; I even `git clean` everything and `make` from fresh but somehow the cabal still isn't updated. Can anyone help me on why this is happening and how to fix it?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thanks so much,</p>
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