[Haskell-beginners] ghc failed to compile trifecta while installing idris

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

Take a look here: https://github.com/ekmett/trifecta/issues/41

On 24 January 2015 at 10:32, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Idris.
>
> I am working on Ubuntu 14.04. ghc --version reports 7.6.3.
>
> After installing Haskell via apt-get, I then executed cabal update,
> which succeeded.
>
> I then tried cabal install idris and it eventually failed while
> trying to install trifecta.
>
> I then tried cabal install -v3 idris and got the following info
> about the trifecta problem, which I've appended to this message
> as a PS.
>
> Maybe I can patch Highlight.hs? How would I go about that?
> Unpack the tar.gz, patch the file, and repack it?
>
> For the record, I tried to follow the instructions at:
> https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/wiki/Idris-on-Ubuntu
> but ran into various errors, e.g., cabal install cabal-install
> failed with ExitFailure 139.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> best,
>
> Robert Dodier
>
> PS. The tail end of the output of cabal install -v3 idris:
>
> [ 8 of 13] Compiling Text.Trifecta.Highlight (
> src/Text/Trifecta/Highlight.hs, dist/build/Text/Trifecta/Highlight.o )
> *** Parser:
> *** Renamer/typechecker:
>
> src/Text/Trifecta/Highlight.hs:46:15:
>     Ambiguous occurrence `Comment'
>     It could refer to either `Text.Blaze.Internal.Comment',
>                              imported from `Text.Blaze.Internal' at
> src/Text/Trifecta/Highlight.hs:35:1-26
>                           or `Text.Parser.Token.Highlight.Comment',
>                              imported from `Text.Parser.Token.Highlight' at
> src/Text/Trifecta/Highlight.hs:36:1-34
> Upsweep partially successful.
> *** Deleting temp files:
> Deleting: /tmp/ghc13030_0/ghc13030_0.s
> Warning: deleting non-existent /tmp/ghc13030_0/ghc13030_0.s
> link(batch): upsweep (partially) failed OR
>    Main.main not exported; not linking.
> *** Deleting temp files:
> Deleting: /tmp/ghc13030_0/ghc13030_0.hscpp
> *** Deleting temp dirs:
> Deleting: /tmp/ghc13030_0
> /usr/bin/ghc returned ExitFailure 1
> Failed to install trifecta-1.5
> World file is already up to date.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> idris-0.9.16 depends on trifecta-1.5 which failed to install.
> trifecta-1.5 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
>
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-- 
Regards

Sumit Sahrawat
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