[Haskell-cafe] Parallel cabal install ignores order

[Niklas Hambüchen]

Done: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1174

On 11/01/13 01:50, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> On 11 January 2013 10:27, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:
>> I have "jobs: 4" enabled in my cabal config to get parallel installs
>> with cabal-install >= 1.16.
>>
>> When I do cabal install --reinstall --force-reinstalls world to
>> reinstall all packages (e.g. to enable profiling or shared), it fails
>> after some point, complaining that the required dependency package is
>> not compiled with the needed flag (for profiling / -dyn).
>>
>> It looks like for reinstalls, parallel cabal-install simply ignores the
>> necessary order.
>>
>> Can somebody confirm this or tell me if this is known?
>> If not, where should it be reported?
> 
> As an off-the-cuff guess (not having had anything to do with
> developing cabal-install, etc.), it probably _does_ take dependencies
> into account... but it sees that the packages are all installed and
> thus order isn't sufficient.  What it seemingly isn't taking into
> account is the new requirement to have profiling or dynamic builds of
> existing packages.
> 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Niklas
>>
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