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<p class="MsoNormal">Simon has a cabal-install that claims to be 3.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></p>
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Ah yes, I installed it thus:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hvr/ghc-wsl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]>sudo apt install cabal-install-3.0<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why did I do that? Because earlier versions of cabal crashed with a mysterious “The futex facility returned an unexpected” something like this
<a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3881">https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3881</a> or this https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform/issues/293<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apparently Herbert’s 3.0 does not fail in this way.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brandon Allbery<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 April 2019 23:24<br>
<b>To:</b> Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus@iki.fi><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ghc-devs@haskell.org Devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Cabal woes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The facts here are in the original message: Simon has a cabal-install that claims to be 3.0.0.0, and is treating "install" as "v2-install". So evidently *someone* has released it in some fashion, perhaps inappropriately.<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 6:22 PM Oleg Grenrus <<a href="mailto:oleg.grenrus@iki.fi">oleg.grenrus@iki.fi</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>cabal-install-3 isn't released. Please check the facts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 16.4.2019 1.17, Brandon Allbery wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I vaguely recall seeing that bug come up with respect to v2-install. And in fact am a bit surprised that 3 has been released, since this is highlighting that neither it nor the Haskell ecosystem is quite ready for it.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd also have expected (and thought I'd seen) "cabal install" in recent 2.x warn that it would be "v1-install" in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 6:13 PM Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Aha! That works. I would never in a million years have found that by myself. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p>
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It is terribly mysterious that “cabal install hspec” doesn’t, well, install hspec.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="gmail-m2916807778046529858gmail-m-7704206502593406082msolistparagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
It must surely be a bug that “cabal install –lib hspec” simply crashes.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 April 2019 23:03<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Cabal woes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt">Yes, I think a lot of documentation will need to be updated because this. You want "cabal v1-install" with cabal 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 6:00 PM Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks. But alas I have no clue about whether I want a v1-install or a v2-install, nor how to achieve them if I knew what they were. I just want to install ‘hspec’ so that I can
use it when compiling a program. How would I do that?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The instructions here
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https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal-Install</a> just say “cabal install hspec” which is what I tried. Those instructions are pointed to from here
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https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package</a>, which in turn are pointed to from the main Cabal home page
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https://www.haskell.org/cabal/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I must be missing something.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 April 2019 22:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Cabal woes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt">I think you wanted v1-install to install a library into the user package database, since your cabal is 3.x and the v2-* commands are now the default (that is, you did what used to be cabal
new-install or cabal v2-install). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 5:47 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I’m trying to install ‘hspec’ on my WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) system.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">But I fail; see below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">For some reason cabal complains about installing a library. (That seems peculiar – isn’t that what cabal is for?) But it helpfully suggests adding –lib.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Alas, cabal then crashes outright, which should never happen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">So I’m stuck. What should I do?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ cabal --version<o:p></o:p></p>
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cabal-install version 3.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></p>
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compiled using version 3.0.0.0 of the Cabal library <o:p></o:p></p>
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simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ cabal install hspec<o:p></o:p></p>
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Resolving dependencies...<o:p></o:p></p>
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Up to date<o:p></o:p></p>
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Warning: You asked to install executables, but there are no executables in<o:p></o:p></p>
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target: hspec. Perhaps you want to use --lib to install libraries instead.<o:p></o:p></p>
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simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ cabal install --lib hspec<o:p></o:p></p>
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Resolving dependencies...<o:p></o:p></p>
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Up to date<o:p></o:p></p>
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Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs:1959:5-56: Irrefutable pattern failed for pattern Just ghcPkgProg<o:p></o:p></p>
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simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ which ghc<o:p></o:p></p>
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/opt/ghc/bin/ghc<o:p></o:p></p>
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simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ which ghc-pkg<o:p></o:p></p>
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/opt/ghc/bin/ghc-pkg<o:p></o:p></p>
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simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$<o:p></o:p></p>
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