Announce: Yi 0.5.0.1

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Wed Oct 8 11:16:47 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:09 +0200, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:
> ... cabal issues on Yi install ...
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Christian Maeder
> <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
> > Yes, this started working until:
> >
> > Resolving dependencies...
> > 'unix-compat-0.1.2.1' is cached.
> > Configuring unix-compat-0.1.2.1... exactly
> > Preprocessing library unix-compat-0.1.2.1...
> > Building unix-compat-0.1.2.1...
> >
> > System/PosixCompat/Files.hsc:83:7:
> >    Could not find module `System.Time':
> >      it is a member of package old-time-1.0.0.0, which is hidden
> > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> > unix-compat-0.1.2.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> > exit: ExitFailure 1
> 
> I don't understand this: unix-compat depends on old-time
> (if I trust http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix-compat-0.1.2.1),
> so this should be made visible by cabal.
> 
> There might be an issue with pre-processing, but that's beyond my
> cabal knowledge.
> 
> Maybe some cc'ed wizards can help :)

I cannot reproduce that failure, it just works for me.

What versions does "cabal --version" report? And using ghc-6.8.2?

Duncan



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